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Authors and actors and artists and
Never know nothing, and never know much.
Sculptors and singers and those of their
Tell their affairs from Seattle to Sydney.
Playwrights and poets and such horses'
Start off from anywhere, end up at sex.
Diarists, critics, and similar
Never say nothing, and never say no.
People Who Do Things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance!

Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was be
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