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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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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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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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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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[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 cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
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We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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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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You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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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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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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