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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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Dorothy Parker
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518 people liked it
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
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Dorothy Parker
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362 people liked it
"What fresh hell is this?"
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Dorothy Parker
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The Portable Dorothy Parker
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141 people liked it
"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 anymore."
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Dorothy Parker
59 people liked it
"In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you."
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Dorothy Parker
35 people liked it
"Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground."
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Dorothy Parker
(
Men, Women and Dogs
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21 people liked it
"So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead."
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Dorothy Parker
59 people liked it
"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."
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Dorothy Parker
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33 people liked it
"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika."
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Dorothy Parker
48 people liked it
"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."
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Dorothy Parker
45 people liked it
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