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People are more than fun than anybody.
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'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
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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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My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.
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A girl's best friend is her mutter.
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There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
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tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
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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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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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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
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