Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 8

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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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• 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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• 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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• Trapped like a trap in a trap

  Dorothy Parker

  Traps, Trapped

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

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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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• [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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• Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

  Dorothy Parker

  Civilization, Ends, Coming To An End

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

  Dorothy Parker

  Cheques

  The New York Herald Tribune, December 12, 1932.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Dust, Way, Excuse

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• I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

  Dorothy Parker

  Umbrella, Superlatives

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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