ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon. Dorothy Parker More Quotes by Dorothy Parker More Quotes From Dorothy Parker ... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Dorothy Parker readingbookchildren 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 hilariousnew-yorkchildren Somebody was using the pencil. Dorothy Parker pencilsprocrastination As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'. Dorothy Parker powerful-womenpowerfulmorning Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time. Dorothy Parker kissingtroubleart 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 anecdotesstoriesanimal Age before beauty, and pearls before swine. Dorothy Parker youthpearlsage 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 niceartthinking And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds. Dorothy Parker chasingpoet all men are the same age. Dorothy Parker agemen He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms. Dorothy Parker cypresseswoodslying I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium. Dorothy Parker bacteriapoisonouswish [From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are. Dorothy Parker hellomightwindow God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read. Dorothy Parker nicereadingboys 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 moonfunlove-is [When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear. Dorothy Parker dearinspirationneeds 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 tirednursebook 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 ivorymeandirty Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All the songs were ever sung, All the words were ever said; Could it be, when I was young, Someone dropped me on my head? Dorothy Parker voicehumoroussong Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell. Dorothy Parker bassfavorskissing
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