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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.

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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
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All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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People are more fun than anyone.
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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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Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...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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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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