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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
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild

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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
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[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
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You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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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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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
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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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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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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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