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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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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
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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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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
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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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The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
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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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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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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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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound if I can remember any of the damn things.
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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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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey The horse doth with the horseman away.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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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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