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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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[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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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.
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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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Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
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If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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