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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
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Monmouth County
New Jersey
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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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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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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all men are the same age.
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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