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“[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.” quote by Dorothy Parker — Download Open image

“[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.”

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There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle,…

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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

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“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.”

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Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

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

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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

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There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I…

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

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