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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
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Dot Rothschild
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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke And that, I think, is worse.
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.
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I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
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