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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
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[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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It was written without fear and without research.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
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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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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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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an 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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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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