Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 7

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

  Dorothy Parker

  President, Hearing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• [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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• 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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