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Love is like quicksilver in the hand, Leave the fingers open and it stays, Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker
American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
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I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

Dorothy Malone
American actress (1924-2018)

Dorothy Malone was an American actress. Her film career began in 1943, and in her early years, she played small roles, mainly in B-movies, with the exception of a supporting role in The Big Sleep (1946). After a decade, she changed her image, particularly after her role in Written on the Wind (1956), for which she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

Dorothy L. Sayers
English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)

Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime writer and poet. She was also a student of classical and modern languages.
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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

Dorothy L. Sayers
English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)

Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime writer and poet. She was also a student of classical and modern languages.
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I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Dorothy Hamill
figure skater

Dorothy Stuart Hamill is a retired American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion and 1976 World champion in ladies' singles.
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)

Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.
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Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
American author and social activist

Dorothy Canfield Fisher was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary tastes by serving as a member of the Book of the Month Club selection committee from 1925 to 1951.
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

Doris Lessing
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer

Doris May Lessing was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
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It seems to me like this: it's not a terrible thing--I mean, it may be terrible, but it's not damaging, it's not poisoning--to do without something one really wants ... What's really terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do, or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Doris Lessing
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer

Doris May Lessing was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Doris Day
American actress and singer (1922–2019)

Doris Day was an American actress and singer. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.
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