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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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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
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It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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Money is only congealed snow.
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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
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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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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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How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound if I can remember any of the damn things.
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