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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
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[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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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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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
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I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.
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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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Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
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Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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