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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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Woman wants monogamy Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?
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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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It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
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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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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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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 writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
Dorothy Parker
Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
Dorothy Parker
Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
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