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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
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.
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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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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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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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