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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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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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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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And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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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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...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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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
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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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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Money is only congealed snow.
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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go.
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It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
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