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A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.
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His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.
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I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.
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People are more fun than anyone.
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And where does she find them?
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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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