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  • #1
    Dorothy Parker
    “Daily dawns another day;
    I must up, to make my way.
    Though I dress and drink and eat,
    Move my fingers and my feet,
    Learn a little, here and there,
    Weep and laugh and sweat and swear,
    Hear a song, or watch a stage,
    Leave some words upon a page,
    Claim a foe, or hail a friend-
    Bed awaits me at the end.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

  • #2
    Dorothy Parker
    “They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
    Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

  • #3
    Dorothy Parker
    “And if my heart be scarred and burned,
    The safer, I, for all I learned.”
    Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

  • #4
    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #5
    Dorothy Parker
    “I like to have a martini,
    Two at the very most.
    After three I'm under the table,
    after four I'm under my host.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

  • #6
    Dorothy Parker
    “I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #7
    Dorothy Parker
    “Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #8
    Dorothy Parker
    “By the time you swear you're his,
    Shivering and sighing.
    And he vows his passion is,
    Infinite, undying.
    Lady make note of this --
    One of you is lying.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #9
    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #10
    Dorothy Parker
    “In youth, it was a way I had,
    To do my best to please.
    And change, with every passing lad
    To suit his theories.

    But now I know the things I know
    And do the things I do,
    And if you do not like me so,
    To hell, my love, with you.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

  • #11
    Dorothy Parker
    Résumé
    Razors pain you,
    Rivers are damp,
    Acids stain you,
    And drugs cause cramp.
    Guns aren't lawful,
    Nooses give,
    Gas smells awful.
    You might as well live.”
    Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

  • #12
    Dorothy Parker
    “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #13
    Dorothy Parker
    “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
    Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns

  • #14
    Dorothy Parker
    “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
    Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

  • #15
    Dorothy Parker
    “If I didn't care for fun and such,
    I'd probably amount to much.
    But I shall stay the way I am,
    Because I do not give a damn.”
    Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

  • #16
    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

  • #17
    Dorothy Parker
    Inventory:

    "Four be the things I am wiser to know:
    Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
    Four be the things I'd been better without:
    Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
    Three be the things I shall never attain:
    Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
    Three be the things I shall have till I die:
    Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

  • #18
    Dorothy Parker
    “Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #19
    Dorothy Parker
    “If wild my breast and sore my pride,
    I bask in dreams of suicide,
    If cool my heart and high my head
    I think 'How lucky are the dead.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

  • #20
    Dorothy Parker
    “Symptom Recital

    I do not like my state of mind;
    I'm bitter, querulous, unkind.
    I hate my legs, I hate my hands,
    I do not yearn for lovelier lands.
    I dread the dawn's recurrent light;
    I hate to go to bed at night.
    I snoot at simple, earnest folk.
    I cannot take the gentlest joke.
    I find no peace in paint or type.
    My world is but a lot of tripe.
    I'm disillusioned, empty-breasted.
    For what I think, I'd be arrested.
    I am not sick, I am not well.
    My quondam dreams are shot to hell.
    My soul is crushed, my spirit sore;
    I do not like me any more.
    I cavil, quarrel, grumble, grouse.
    I ponder on the narrow house.
    I shudder at the thought of men....
    I'm due to fall in love again.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #21
    Dorothy Parker
    “If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #22
    Dorothy Parker
    “Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #23
    Dorothy Parker
    “A hangover is the wrath of grapes.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #24
    Dorothy Parker
    “Time doth flit; oh shit.”
    Dorothy Parker



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