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... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.
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If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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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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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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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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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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