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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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His books are exciting and powerful and β if I may filch the word from the booksy ones β pulsing.
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Woman wants monogamy Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?
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Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may or, by this time, try though he doesn't.
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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey The horse doth with the horseman away.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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The only βismβ Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.
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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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