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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
Columnist
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West End
Monmouth County
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Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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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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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.
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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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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Eternity is a ham and two people.
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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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A girl's best friend is her mutter.
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