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  • #1
    Dorothy Parker
    “Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Dorothy Parker
    “That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #5
    Dorothy Parker
    “Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #6
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.”
    Dorothy Parker, Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Dorothy Parker
    “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
    Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns

  • #9
    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Dorothy Parker
    “So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
    Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #12
    Dorothy Parker
    “This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

    [Women Know Everything!]”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #13
    Dorothy Parker
    “If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #14
    Dorothy Parker
    “All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends. ”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #15
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #16
    Dorothy Parker
    “I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #17
    Dorothy Parker
    “It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #18
    Dorothy Parker
    “Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #19
    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    Sid Ziff

  • #20
    Dorothy Parker
    “Accursed from their birth they be
    Who seek to find monogamy,
    Pursuing it from bed to bed—
    I think they would be better dead.”
    Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

  • #21
    Dorothy Parker
    “You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Algonquin Wits

  • #22
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
    Nicolas Chamfort

  • #25
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #26
    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    Anais Nin

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #28
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

  • #29
    Marilyn Monroe
    “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #30
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    Linda Grayson



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