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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
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[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.
Dorothy Parker
Money is only congealed snow.
Dorothy Parker
[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
Dorothy Parker
Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
Dorothy Parker
If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
Dorothy Parker
Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may or, by this time, try though he doesn't.
Dorothy Parker
Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke And that, I think, is worse.
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People are more than fun than anybody.
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Eternity is a ham and two people.
Dorothy Parker
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey The horse doth with the horseman away.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
Dorothy Parker
There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
Dorothy Parker
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.
Dorothy Parker
The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
Dorothy Parker
All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
Dorothy Parker
