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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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 wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
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I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.
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