“Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme --
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.”

—  Dorothy Parker

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

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