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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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She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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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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On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
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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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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit We all assume that Oscar said it.
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Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
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[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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