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“Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.”
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“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
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“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 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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“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.”
― The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my heart and high my head
I think 'How lucky are the dead.”
― The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
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