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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.
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Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
Dorothy Parker
I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark And what if I don't, and what if I do?
Dorothy Parker
[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
Dorothy Parker
When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
Dorothy Parker
[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
Dorothy Parker
There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
Dorothy Parker
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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