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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

Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All the songs were ever sung, All the words were ever said; Could it be, when I was young, Someone dropped me on my head?

Dorothy Parker

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

Dorothy Parker

When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly...

Dorothy Parker

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

Dorothy Parker

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

Dorothy Parker

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

Dorothy Parker

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.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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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