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Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

Dorothy Parker

Giving Up, Thinking, Trying

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

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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.

Dorothy Parker

Giving, Paws

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

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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

Dorothy Parker

Encouragement, Hollywood, Earth

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[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

Dorothy Parker

Might, Hello, Window

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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.

Dorothy Parker

Dirty, Mean, Ivory

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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

Dorothy Parker

New York, Paris, Hopeful

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How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parker

Beautiful, Sleep, Night

Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.197, Penguin

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It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

Dorothy Parker

House, Firsts, Darling

New Yorker 20 Oct. 1928 (review by Dorothy Parker as "Constant Reader")

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Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

Dorothy Parker

Artist, Actors, Knows

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

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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Dorothy Parker

Beer, Host, Drink

Quoted in Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me (1944)

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Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I doubt if this will get me much.

Dorothy Parker

Sweet, Eye, Heart

Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]

Dorothy Parker

Beautiful, Men, Wife

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

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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

Dorothy Parker

Being Thankful, Sitting Down, World

Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.94, Penguin

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Eternity is a ham and two people.

Dorothy Parker

Two, People, Ham

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Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.

Dorothy Parker

Thinking, Bed, Would Be

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "Reuben's Children"

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This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

Dorothy Parker

Funny, Book, Reading

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

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For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.

Dorothy Parker

Cute, Believe, Mind

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Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

Dorothy Parker

New York, Twilight, Night

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

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song

Dorothy Parker

Love, Song, Life Is

"Comment" l. 1 (1926)

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If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much; But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

Dorothy Parker

Fun, Humorous, Night

Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.

Dorothy Parker

People, Soul, Would Be

Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.194, Penguin

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Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Dorothy Parker

Running, Theatre, Watches

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Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All the songs were ever sung, All the words were ever said; Could it be, when I was young, Someone dropped me on my head?

Dorothy Parker

Song, Humorous, Voice

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

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Guido Natso is natso guido.

Dorothy Parker

Guidos

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Somebody was using the pencil.

Dorothy Parker

Procrastination, Pencils

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Born: August 22, 1893
Died: June 7, 1967
Occupation: Poet
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