Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 11

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• I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

  Dorothy Parker

  Rain, Sheep, Anecdotes

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• Art is a form of catharsis.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Catharsis, Form

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

  Dorothy Parker

  Kings, Writing, Trying

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

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• It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hate, Book, Writing

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Two, Alcohol

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Enemy, Scratches

  "Ballade of a Great Weariness" l. 8 (1926)

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• We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Missing, Entertainment

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• [At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.

  Dorothy Parker

  Years, People, Today

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• People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

  Dorothy Parker

  Men, People, Endurance

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

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• You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

  Dorothy Parker

  Jobs, Book, Reading

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

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• Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Horse, Woe, Wealth

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• Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray

  Dorothy Parker

  Clear

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Window Panes, Together, Window

  Dorothy Parker (1942). “The collected stories of Dorothy Parker”

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• I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Tombstone, Bottom

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• Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

  Dorothy Parker

  Innocence, Ridiculous, Behavior

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.25, Penguin

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• Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hollywood, Streets

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

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• [Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.

  Dorothy Parker

  Country, Weekend, Bored

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• This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Play, Records

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• Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

  Dorothy Parker

  Believe, Writing, Men

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• Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.

  Dorothy Parker

  Faith, Needs, Littles

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Scratch a king and find a fool!

  Dorothy Parker

  Kings, Scratches, Fool

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

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• Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.

  Dorothy Parker

  Animal, Anecdotes, Stories

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

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• The House Beautiful is the play lousy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Play, House

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

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• ...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

  Dorothy Parker

  Ink, World, Taught

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

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• Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

  Dorothy Parker

  Wise, Kids, Happy Kid

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Collected poems: Not so deep as a well”

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