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Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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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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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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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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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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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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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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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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