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People are more fun than anyone.
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
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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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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You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
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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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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.
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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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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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