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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.
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
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Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
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[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.
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It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
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