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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
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
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Dot Rothschild
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My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.
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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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If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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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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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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Woman wants monogamy Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?
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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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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
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Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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