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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Monmouth County
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.
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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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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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People are more than fun than anybody.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
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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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