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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

Dorothy Parker

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
DOROTHY PARKER

Excitement Fortune Irritation
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKER

Death God
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
DOROTHY PARKER

End Happiness History Human Willing
All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
DOROTHY PARKER

Animal Business People Right Yourself
Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKER

Myself Tone View Voice
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKER

Alcohol Quick Vice
Writing well is the best revenge.
DOROTHY PARKER

One Liner Revenge Writing
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKER

Food Forever People
The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
DOROTHY PARKER

Cheating Hollywood Reality
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
DOROTHY PARKER

Dance Death Drink Laughter
Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
DOROTHY PARKER

Bad Death Feeling Myself Time
Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
DOROTHY PARKER

Deny Fake Lying Storm Trouble
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER

Sick Storm
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKER

Genius Material Talent Writing
I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
DOROTHY PARKER

Goodness Money Myself Togetherness Writing
Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
DOROTHY PARKER

Identity Normal Popular

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