Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. Dorothy Parker More Quotes by Dorothy Parker More Quotes From Dorothy Parker I give her sadness and the gift of pain, Dorothy Parker sadnesspainrain Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. Dorothy Parker hatesummerspring Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it. Dorothy Parker doctorsbraverysaid This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine. Dorothy Parker clamscatharsislife She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. Dorothy Parker innuendosorrysex Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of the side window was a wonderfully slinky mink, and an arm, and at the end of the arm a hand in a white suede glove wrinkled around the wrist, and in the hand was a bagel with a bite out of it. Dorothy Parker blockwhitehands 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 painrainheart 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 mistakejoyfirsts 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 heartbreaklove-isthinking Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania. Dorothy Parker songlovelife 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 effortsimplelakes All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted. Dorothy Parker sitting-downbeing-thankfulworld My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges. Dorothy Parker aircloudssweet [On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn. Dorothy Parker mystery-novelswhitehouse Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that. Dorothy Parker hatsshoesdresses [On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell? Dorothy Parker hearingpresident The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity; the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium. Dorothy Parker beautifulboysthinking I like to have a martini/Two at the very most. Dorothy Parker alcoholdrinkingtwo 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 costone-daydeath Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown? Dorothy Parker fashionheartmen
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