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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
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[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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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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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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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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... 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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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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