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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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Monmouth County
New Jersey
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Dot Rothschild
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Scratch a king and find a fool!
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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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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
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Money is only congealed snow.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
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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.
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The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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I'm never going to accomplish anything that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
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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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But I don't give up I forget why not.
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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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What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
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