Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 8

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• [When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspiration, Needs, Dear

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• They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Nice, Thinking

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

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• This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

  Dorothy Parker

  Life, Catharsis, Clams

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

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• If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Trying, Credit, Oscars

  "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature" l. 10 (1928)

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• Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that 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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• The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

  Dorothy Parker

  Cheques

  The New York Herald Tribune, December 12, 1932.

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• If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

  Dorothy Parker

  Complaining, Complaints, My Friends

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Tired, Nurse

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

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• Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Gertrude, Generations

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• ... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

  Dorothy Parker

  Children, Book, Reading

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

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• Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Home, Lazy

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• The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Stories, Literature

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• Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Enough, Life Happiness

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• It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

  Dorothy Parker

  Simple, Lakes, Effort

  New Yorker, 25 Feb. 1928

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• I give her sadness and the gift of pain,
  a new moon madness and a love of rain.

  Dorothy Parker

  Pain, Rain, Sadness

  Dorothy Parker, “Godmother”

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• I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

  Dorothy Parker

  Tombstone, Thinking, Giving

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• In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall ride the silver seas, He shall cut the glittering wave. I shall sit at home, and rock; Rise, to heed a neighbor's knock; Brew my tea, and snip my thread; Bleach the linen for my bed. They will call him brave.

  Dorothy Parker

  Home, Cutting, Rocks

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.

  Dorothy Parker

  Kissing, Favors, Bass

  Dorothy Parker (1932). “Death and Taxes”

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• When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

  Dorothy Parker

  Apology, Apologizing, Wells

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

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• The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

  Dorothy Parker

  Moon, Black, Gone

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

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• They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

  Dorothy Parker

  Should, Parlor Games, Doubtful

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

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• I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

  Dorothy Parker

  Falling In Love, Men, Dues

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

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• Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

  Dorothy Parker

  Marriage, Office, Magazines

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• Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

  Dorothy Parker

  New Yorker, 20 Oct. 1928

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