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It was written without fear and without research.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.
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Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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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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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...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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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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People are more than fun than anybody.
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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
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