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Dorothy Parker

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER

Acceptance Leaving Myself
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Death Growth Rose Willing
Women and elephants never forget.
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Animal Forget Funny Woman
I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Mindset True Writing
It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Kill Mess Myself Tragedy
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Enough Jealous Satisfaction Wine
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Sick Storm
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Old Teaching Trick Yourself
If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Care Fun Myself Stay
If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Deep God Himself Money People Thinking
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Atmosphere Best Children Home
There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Funny Life Study Theft Yourself
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Action Hate Hell Identity Love Myself Yourself
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Diamond Health Money Myself
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Dance End Surprise Woman Young
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Boredom Elegant Manner Right

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