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“People Who Do Things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance!”
― dorothy parker

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“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns

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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.”
― Dorothy Parker

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“I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. 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 any more.”
― Dorothy Parker, Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker

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“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

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