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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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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
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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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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.
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[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
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[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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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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Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
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Guido Natso is natso guido.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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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'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
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