Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 12

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• On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

  Dorothy Parker

  Death, President, Former

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• [Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nurse, Buttons, Letters

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• She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.

  Dorothy Parker

  Winning, Dating, Loses

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Collected poems: Not so deep as a well”

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• tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

  Dorothy Parker

  Gone, Tonight, Tomorrow

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Collected poems: Not so deep as a well”

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• There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Disregard, Reader, Magnificent

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• Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Numbers, Gone

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• Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nature, Flower, Heaven

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• Work is the province of cattle.

  Dorothy Parker

  Work, Society, Cattle

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

  Dorothy Parker

  Looks, Young, Like Something

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.88, Penguin

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• We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Missing, Entertainment

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• [At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.

  Dorothy Parker

  Years, People, Today

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• I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree.

  Dorothy Parker

  Spring, Gay, Thinking

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

  Dorothy Parker

  Rose, Perfect, Luck

  "One Perfect Rose" l. 9 (1926)

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• My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sneakers, Missing, Horrible

  Dorothy Parker (1996). “The Uncollected Dorothy Parker”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

  Dorothy Parker

  Gratitude, World, Attributes

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• God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nice, Reading, Boys

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• I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Home, Men

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Reading, Cutting

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

  Dorothy Parker

  Powerful, Book, May

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

  Dorothy Parker

  Blow, Fluff, Comparison

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Two, Theodore

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• Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

  Dorothy Parker

  Encouragement, Hollywood, World

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• If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Facts, Being The Best

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• People are more than fun than anybody.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, People

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• [On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Ducks, Hands, Water

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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