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“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of "The Elements of Style." The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”---Dorothy Parker Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

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Top 5 Poems

1	Love Song
2	Autumn Valentine
3	Transition
4	The Gentlest Lady
5	Ballade at Thirty-five

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A Certain Lady

A Dream Lies Dead

A Fairly Sad Tale

A Pigs-Eye View Of Literature

A Portrait

A Very Short Song

A Well-Worn Story

After Spanish Proverb

Afternoon

Alexandre Dumas And His Son

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Anecdote

Autumn Valentine

Ballade at Thirty-five

Ballade Of A Great Weariness

Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals

Coda

For A Favorite Granddaughter

For A Lady Who Must Write Verse

For A Sad Lady

For An Unknown Lady

From A Letter From Lesbia

Frustration

Fulfillment

Garden-Spot

General Review Of The Sex Situation

Guinevere at Her Fireside

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Quote Left They sicken of the calm who know the storm
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Quote Left If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.'
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Quote Left That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Quote Left Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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Quote Left I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. Out there, I called it.
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