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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 won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
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all men are the same age.
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