Dorothy Parker (22 August 1893 - 7 June 1967 / Long Branch / New Jersey)
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The Flaw In Paganism
Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)
Dorothy Parker
Submitted: Monday, January 13, 2003
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Poems by Dorothy Parker : 149 / 189
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