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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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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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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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Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke And that, I think, is worse.
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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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[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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His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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