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[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

Dorothy Parker

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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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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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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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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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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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They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
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