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Eternity is a ham and two people.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark And what if I don't, and what if I do?
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Woman wants monogamy Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?
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Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.
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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit We all assume that Oscar said it.
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