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Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.
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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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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
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Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
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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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[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
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Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
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