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People are more fun than anyone.

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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
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
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Dot Rothschild
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[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.
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Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
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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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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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