You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do. Dorothy Parker More Quotes by Dorothy Parker More Quotes From Dorothy Parker Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you. Dorothy Parker dearmarymemorable Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion. Dorothy Parker tranquilityemotionsorrow Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Dorothy Parker foursorrowfriendship 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 divorcehusbandland 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-monthswritingthinking Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song Dorothy Parker life-issonglove This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. Dorothy Parker readingfunnybook Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time. Dorothy Parker miserysadnesslong Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live. Dorothy Parker depressinggunsuicide 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 twobookthinking 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 paingunfun 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 proposalseriousnew-york [Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust. Dorothy Parker excusedustway 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 cocktailspartywould-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 tastesakebrave 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 eyereadingbeach [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 todaypeopleyears [To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit. Dorothy Parker annoyedactorsthinking 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 gonenumbersbook 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 kingswritingtrying
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