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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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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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[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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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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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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.
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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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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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