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The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
Dorothy Parker
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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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I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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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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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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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 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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... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
Dorothy Parker
A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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all men are the same age.
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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
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