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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
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
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Four
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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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Daily dawns another day I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.
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Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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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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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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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 Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
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