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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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Monmouth County
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Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.
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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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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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People are more fun than anyone.
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I'm never going to accomplish anything that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.
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His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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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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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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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
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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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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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