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Quotes
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Dorothy Parker : Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you, drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful; you might as well live.
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[after being chewed out for missing a magazine deadline]
Dorothy Parker : Someone else was using the pencil.
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Dorothy Parker : I'll wear my heart on my sleeve like a wet, red stain.
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Dorothy Parker : But I can't understand what God is saying, because he's got a mask over his face. Isn't that just like Him?
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Dorothy Parker : The sun's gone dim, the moon's turned black; for I loved him and he didn't love back.
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Dorothy Parker : I write doodads because it's a doodad kind of town.
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Dorothy Parker : I'd kiss you, but I'm not sure it'd come out right.
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Dorothy Parker : I never liked a man I didn't meet.
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Dorothy Parker : Time doth flit; oh shit.
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Dorothy Parker : You don't want to turn into the town drunk, Eddie. Not in Manhattan.
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Dorothy Parker : I may have him mounted.
Robert Benchley : One would assume.
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Dorothy Parker : It's as if I were a spoiled virgin, and no one will have me!
Robert Benchley : You're not spoiled. Just highly seasoned.
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Dorothy Parker : Tragedies don't kill us, Woodrow. Messes kill us.