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Guido Natso is natso guido.

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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild

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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
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All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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People are more than fun than anybody.
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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 Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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A girl's best friend is her mutter.
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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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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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