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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 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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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Guido Natso is natso guido.
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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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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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