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Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
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 know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.
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I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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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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The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey The horse doth with the horseman away.
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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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I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.
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