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    Dorothy Parker
    “Trapped like a trap in a trap”
    Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

  • #2
    Dorothy Parker
    “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

  • #3
    Dorothy Parker
    “Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?

    A: You can't hear an enzyme.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Dorothy Parker
    “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #6
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #7
    Dorothy Parker
    “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, Constant Reader: 2

  • #8
    Dorothy Parker
    “Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #9
    Dorothy Parker
    “There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #10
    Dorothy Parker
    “His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #11
    Dorothy Parker
    “She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #12
    Dorothy Parker
    “But I don't give up; I forget why not.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #13
    Dorothy Parker
    “Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.”
    Dorothy Parker, Men, Women and Dogs

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

  • #15
    Dorothy Parker
    “Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

  • #16
    Dorothy Parker
    “Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #17
    Dorothy Parker
    “I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #18
    Dorothy Parker
    “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #19
    Dorothy Parker
    “I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    Dorothy Parker
    “They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
    Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

  • #22
    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #23
    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

  • #24
    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

  • #25
    Dorothy Parker
    “Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #26
    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

  • #27
    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

  • #28
    Dorothy Parker
    “She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #29
    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #30
    Dorothy Parker
    “And if my heart be scarred and burned,
    The safer, I, for all I learned.”
    Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems



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