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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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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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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
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I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
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I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.
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Eternity is a ham and two people.
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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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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I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.
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We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.
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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
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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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