Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 6

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• This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

  Dorothy Parker

  Horse, Liars, Bird

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

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• People are more fun than anyone.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, People

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• Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dying, Meetings

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• All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

  Dorothy Parker

  God, Writing, Childhood

  The Paris Review, 1956.

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• Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

  Dorothy Parker

  Yesterday, Long, Sorrow

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Emotional, Catharsis

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• I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Two, Australia

  Quoted in John Keats, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (1970)

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• Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

  Dorothy Parker

  Numbers, Accepted, Inches

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.302, Penguin

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• There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...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

  Eye, Mind, Criticism

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• Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

  Dorothy Parker

  Suicide, Depressing, Gun

  "Resume" l. 5 (1926)

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• Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.

  Dorothy Parker

  Grief, Heart, Night

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

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• All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

  Dorothy Parker

  Horse, Business, People

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.162, Penguin

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• [On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

  Dorothy Parker

  President, Hearing

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• She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sex, Sorry, Innuendo

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.110, Penguin

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• Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

  Dorothy Parker

  Age, Pearls, Youth

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

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• Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sorrow, Emotion, Tranquility

  Here Lies "Sentiment" (1939) SeeWilliamWordsworth 6

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• The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints.

  Dorothy Parker

  Humorous, Home, Night

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

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• The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

  Dorothy Parker

  May, Weapons, Shields

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

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• A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.

  Dorothy Parker

  Mistake, Joy, Firsts

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

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• As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

  Dorothy Parker

  Morning, Powerful, Powerful Women

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

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• Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.

  Dorothy Parker

  Husband, Divorce, Land

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• [On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

  Dorothy Parker

  Broken, Legs, London

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• Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

  Dorothy Parker

  Pain, Rain, Heart

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

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• It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

  Dorothy Parker

  Death, One Day, Cost

  "Thought for a Sunshiny Morning" l. 1 (1928)

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