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50th birthday Quote by Dorothy Parker

“Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.” quote by Dorothy Parker — Download Open image

“Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.”

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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,…

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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Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

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For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later…

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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but its up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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You know youre fifty when your chiropractor sends you birthday cards.

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50?! I demand a recount!!

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As it's your 50th birthday The very best of cheers to you Truthfully, I'm just being selfish Coz now I am so cheerful, too…

John Walter Bratton

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I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on…

Marcia Gay Harden

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At 50, you probably get muddled? I'm the same, that's how I know? If you ever get lost, don't worry? Just change where you…

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Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many…

Christopher Titus

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After fifty everything that doesnt hurt doesnt work!

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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because…

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