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It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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Eternity is a ham and two people.
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
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This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.
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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
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[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.
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