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 More Quotes by Dorothy Parker More Quotes From Dorothy Parker My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. Dorothy Parker sneakers horrible missing Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time. Dorothy Parker twenties forget people Civilization is coming to an end, you understand. Dorothy Parker coming-to-an-end ends civilization When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go. Dorothy Parker crazy strong wise We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not. Dorothy Parker entertainment missing art Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray Dorothy Parker clear Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie. Dorothy Parker storm advice lying [On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life. Dorothy Parker apples errors party I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia. Dorothy Parker australia two art Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play. Dorothy Parker streets play People are more than fun than anybody. Dorothy Parker fun people ...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink. Dorothy Parker taught ink world Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much. Dorothy Parker actors artist knows Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom. Dorothy Parker cases bigs heart [Epitaph:] Involved in a plot. Dorothy Parker epitaph involved plot You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading. Dorothy Parker reading jobs book There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away. Dorothy Parker window-panes together window My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man. Dorothy Parker first-love god men They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. Dorothy Parker parlor-games doubtful should And where does she find them? Dorothy Parker moral doe manners
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