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Dorothy Parker
(1893 - 1967)

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Dorothy Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, as the fourth and last child of Jacob (Henry) Rothschild, a garment manufacturer, and Annie Eliza (Marston) Rothschild, the daughter of a machinist at Phoenix Armour. Parker's mother died in 1898. Jacob married in 1900 Eleanor Frances Lewis, a Roman C .. .. more >>

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1		"Star Light, Star Bright--"
2		A Certain Lady
3		A Dream Lies Dead
4		A Fairly Sad Tale
5		A Pig's-Eye View Of Literature
6		A Portrait
7		A Very Short Song
8		A Well-Worn Story
9		After Spanish Proverb
10		Afternoon
11		Alexandre Dumas And His Son
12		Alfred, Lord Tennyson
13		Anecdote
14		August
15		Autobiography
16		Autumn Valentine
17		Ballade at Thirty-five
18		Ballade Of A Great Weariness
19		Ballade Of A Talked-Off Ear
20		Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals

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"Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are."
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).

"Gratitude—the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world."
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).

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p.a. noushad (7/11/2008 4:51:00 AM)
beautiful is your creation.

Rosa Jamali (6/1/2008 2:18:00 PM)
Simple, honest, sharp and friendly! It's so hard to create simplicity in poetry.Using colloquial language with a sharp sense of humour. It seems a little cruel, as she judges life.

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Dorothy Parker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893–June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century ...
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Dorothy Parker Quotes - The Quotations Page
Dorothy Parker, 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929; They sicken of the calm, ... Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item" ...
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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker homes and hangouts in New York, the Dorothy Parker Society of New York.
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Dorothy Parker - Poems and Biography by AmericanPoems.com
Biography and texts of Enough Rope, Sunset Gun and Death and Taxes.
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