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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

Dorothy Parker

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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
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[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
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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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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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