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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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If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)
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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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Money is only congealed snow.
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.
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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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I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.
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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.
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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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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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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you And that cleans up the matter.
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Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.
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I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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