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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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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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Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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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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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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Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you And that cleans up the matter.
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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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