I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense. Dorothy Parker More Quotes by Dorothy Parker More Quotes From Dorothy Parker People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance! Dorothy Parker endurance men people At birth the Devil touched my tongue. Dorothy Parker tongue devil birth People are more fun than anyone. Dorothy Parker fun people Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement. Dorothy Parker hollywood encouragement world If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you. Dorothy Parker being-the-best writing facts If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead. Dorothy Parker suicide dream heart 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 woe wealth horse One more drink and I'd have been under the host. Dorothy Parker host drink beer 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 littles needs Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league. Dorothy Parker league hurt practice London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it. Dorothy Parker paris new-york believe I've finally gotten to the bottom of things. Dorothy Parker bottom tombstone Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young. Dorothy Parker like-something young looks Work is the province of cattle. Dorothy Parker cattle society work I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts? Dorothy Parker hurt book lying Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn. Dorothy Parker streets hollywood There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil. Dorothy Parker best-years-of-your-life syntax study 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 records play running Flowers are heaven's masterpiece. Dorothy Parker nature flower heaven There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it. Dorothy Parker magnificent disregard reader
