Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. Dorothy Parker More Quotes by Dorothy Parker More Quotes From Dorothy Parker Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you. Dorothy Parker dear mary memorable Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion. Dorothy Parker tranquility emotion sorrow Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Dorothy Parker four sorrow friendship 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 divorce husband land It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven. Dorothy Parker six-months writing thinking Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song Dorothy Parker life-is song love This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. Dorothy Parker reading funny book Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time. Dorothy Parker misery sadness long Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live. Dorothy Parker depressing gun suicide But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous. Dorothy Parker two book thinking If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :) Dorothy Parker pain gun fun There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence. Dorothy Parker proposal serious new-york [Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust. Dorothy Parker excuse dust way I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble. Dorothy Parker cocktails party would-be I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see. Dorothy Parker taste sake brave Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page. Dorothy Parker eye reading beach [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 today people years [To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit. Dorothy Parker annoyed actors thinking Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end. Dorothy Parker gone numbers book 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
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