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Said Quotes by Dorothy Parker
- Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
- Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's…
- If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.
- On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was…
- Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All…
- But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also,…
- God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off…
- Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said,…
- Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.
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- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
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- Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a… — Russell Baker
- I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was… — Alec Baldwin
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a… — Christian Bale