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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.

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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
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Literary Critic
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Monmouth County
New Jersey
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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
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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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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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And where does she find them?
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tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
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[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
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I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.
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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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Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
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[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
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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 to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
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