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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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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.
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[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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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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I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
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Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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Daily dawns another day I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.
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The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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 first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.
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