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Guido Natso is natso guido.

Dorothy Parker

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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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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
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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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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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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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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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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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[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.
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My land is bare of chattering folk / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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