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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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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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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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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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People are more than fun than anybody.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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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.
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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
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Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may or, by this time, try though he doesn't.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
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