Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 13

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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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• 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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• Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

  Dorothy Parker

  Eye, Phrases, Stories

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

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• [Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

  Dorothy Parker

  Plot, Epitaph, Involved

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• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Suicide, Dream, Heart

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• Money is only congealed snow.

  Dorothy Parker

  Snow

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• [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Glitter, Littles

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• [On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Track, Grandparent

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• And where does she find them?

  Dorothy Parker

  Doe, Moral, Manners

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• [Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

  Dorothy Parker

  Epitaph, Suggesting

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• There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

  Dorothy Parker

  New York, Serious, Proposal

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.101, Penguin

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• Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Hands, Snow

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Memorable, Mary, Dear

  Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934)

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• Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.

  Dorothy Parker

  Play, Streets

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