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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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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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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 hate writing, I love having written.
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...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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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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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
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