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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
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Dot Rothschild
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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Women and elephants never forget.
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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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Money is only congealed snow.
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There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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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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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
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I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.
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