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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
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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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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.
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I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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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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Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
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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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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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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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