Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 7

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• For this my mother wrapped me warm,
  And called me home against the storm,
  And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,
  And gave me roughage in my diet,
  And tucked me in my bed at eight,
  And clipped my hair, and marked my weight,
  And watched me as I sat and stood:
  That I might grow to womanhood
  To hear a whistle and drop my wits
  And break my heart to clattering bits.

  Dorothy Parker

  Broken Heart, Mother, Home

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

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• Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.

  Dorothy Parker

  Long, Events, Would Be

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

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• [On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

  Dorothy Parker

  White, House, Mystery Novels

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

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• Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

  Dorothy Parker

  Fashion, Heart, Men

  "Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words".

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• Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Moon, Love Is

  Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "General Review of the Sex Situation"

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• Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

  Dorothy Parker

  Heartbreak, Love Is, Thinking

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

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• Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

  Dorothy Parker

  Money, Hands, Snow

  In Malcolm Cowley Writers at Work 1st Series (1958) p. 81

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• Trapped like a trap in a trap

  Dorothy Parker

  Traps, Trapped

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.199, Penguin

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• Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.

  Dorothy Parker

  Telephones, Bathroom, Excuse

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• [On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

  Dorothy Parker

  Host, Outspoken, Wit

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• Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Inspirational, Doubt

  Dorothy Parker, “Inventory”

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• Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

  Dorothy Parker

  Soul, Salary, Body

  New Yorker, 4 Feb. 1928

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• Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

  Dorothy Parker

  Soul, Glitter, Duncan

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

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• Hold your pen and spare your voice.

  Dorothy Parker

  Voice, Spares, Pens

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• I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Names, Hollywood, Looks

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• When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

  Dorothy Parker

  Taken, Steps, Bank Accounts

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

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• 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

  Art, Kissing, Trouble

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

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• [To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.

  Dorothy Parker

  Husband, Years, Long

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• My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Heart, June

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

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• Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

  Dorothy Parker

  Summer, Spring, Hate

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

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• I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hilarious, New York, Children

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• She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Acting, Actors

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

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• [On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.

  Dorothy Parker

  Should Have, Missing, Way

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• [Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dust, Way, Excuse

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• On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Artist, Typewriters

  Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

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