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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
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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 nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
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