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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Dorothy Parker?
→ To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
→ I can write faster than anyone who can write better, and I can write better than anyone who can write faster.
→ Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
→ The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant – and let the air out of the tires.
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Pick the quote attributed to Dorothy Parker.
→ I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
→ It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
→ Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
→ We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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Select the quotation attributed to Dorothy Parker.
→ She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
→ True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
→ Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
→ Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
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One of these may be attributed to Dorothy Parker. Which one?
→ Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
→ The two most beautiful words in the English language are "check enclosed."
→ When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
→ The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
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Which one of these belongs to Dorothy Parker?
→ Dreams are necessary to life.
→ The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.
→ Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
→ Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Dorothy Parker?
→ Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
→ The body says what words cannot.
→ There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
→ Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Dorothy Parker.
→ Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
→ A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
→ People living deeply have no fear of death.
→ Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Dorothy Parker. Which one?
→ I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
→ The General was essentially a man of peace, except his domestic life.
→ Where’s the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
→ I’m not feeling very well — I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Dorothy Parker?
→ Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
→ A work of art is never finished, only abandoned.
→ Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
→ When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Dorothy Parker.
→ Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
→ If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
→ A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
→ People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Looks like Dorothy Parker is the author of one of these.
→ No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.
→ A critic is a man who expects miracles.
→ His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
→ Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
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