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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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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People are more than fun than anybody.
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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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Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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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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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
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Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
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