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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
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The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark And what if I don't, and what if I do?
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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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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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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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I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
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All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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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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People are more fun than anyone.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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