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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

Dorothy Parker

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
They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Quiet Storm
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Dance Death Drink Laughter
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Diamond Health Money Myself
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Easy Love People Sweet Yourself
Women and elephants never forget.
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Animal Forget Funny Woman
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Himself Run Stay
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Food Forever People
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
DOROTHY PARKER

Enough Jealous Satisfaction Wine
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
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
DOROTHY PARKER

Better Death Goodness Herself Judgement
Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER

Friendship Mom Pregnant Yourself
Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Challenge Honesty Survive Test Yourself
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Act Quick
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
He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Age Children Forever Himself Time Writing

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

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