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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
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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And where does she find them?
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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People are more than fun than anybody.
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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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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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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you And that cleans up the matter.
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It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
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Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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