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When asked if she'd enjoyed a cocktail party:
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
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If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Writing a book for the Follies seems to be about as profitable an occupation as furnishing flannel petticoats for the showgirls.
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Sure, you make money writing on the coast... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.
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Van and Schenck put their songs over so skillfully that it isn't until their act is all done that you realize what extremely indifferent songs they are. Now, when John Steel is singing, on the other hand, you are never fooled for a moment.
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I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?
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I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen.
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The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
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There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
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Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
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Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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On her abortion:
It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
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The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters.... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
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Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?
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It has lately been drawn to your correspondent's attention that, at social gatherings, she is not the human magnet she would be. Indeed, it turns out that as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, she ranks somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
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And I'll stay away from Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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In short, there is everything about this season's entertainment to make the Hippodrome what it always is—a Temple of the Arts to all those who hang pennants on their automobiles, use Shake hands with my friend as a formula for introduction, and sprinkle powdered sugar on their sliced tomatoes.
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If you arrive late, you won't know what anything is about, and if you are there all the way from the beginning, you won't care.
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By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, Undying—
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Dorothy Parker
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Born:
August 22, 1893
Died:
June 7, 1967
(aged 73)
Bio:
Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Known for:
A Star Is Born (1937)
Saboteur (1942)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Sweethearts (1938)
Women & Men: Stories of Seduction
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