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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
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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People are more fun than anyone.
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
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[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.
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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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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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