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all men are the same age.

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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Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark And what if I don't, and what if I do?
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His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
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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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