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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
US author, humorist, poet, & wit [more author details]

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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.: Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.: Dorothy Parker
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.: Dorothy Parker
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.: Dorothy Parker
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I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it.: Dorothy Parker
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.: Dorothy Parker
If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think "How lucky are the dead.: Dorothy Parker
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If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.: Dorothy Parker
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Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.: Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.: Dorothy Parker
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.: Dorothy Parker
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.: Dorothy Parker, 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.: Dorothy Parker, 'Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.: Dorothy Parker, (attributed)
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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 any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.: Dorothy Parker, Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.: Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
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Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.: Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item"
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.: Dorothy Parker, speaking of Katharine Hepburn

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