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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
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Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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Eternity is a ham and two people.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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.
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Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.
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If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)
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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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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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[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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