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Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Screenwriter
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
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[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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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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This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.
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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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People are more than fun than anybody.
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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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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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