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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
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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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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They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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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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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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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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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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