“I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
--From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song”
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But I grow old and I forget your name.
--From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song”
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“Most days I go home crying
and my dad tells me
welcome to the real world.”
― I Don't Want To Be Crazy
and my dad tells me
welcome to the real world.”
― I Don't Want To Be Crazy
“Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme --
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“I am fearful of romantic dinners,
huge crowds, dusk -
of normal things-
afraid to be loved,
the one thing I want most.
Maybe it's because I don't think I deserve it
because I am not that perfect
little girl that I was supposed to be,
well manicured and well groomed,
because I have nervous breakdowns,
and take pills,
and keep moving on.”
― I Don't Want To Be Crazy
huge crowds, dusk -
of normal things-
afraid to be loved,
the one thing I want most.
Maybe it's because I don't think I deserve it
because I am not that perfect
little girl that I was supposed to be,
well manicured and well groomed,
because I have nervous breakdowns,
and take pills,
and keep moving on.”
― I Don't Want To Be Crazy
“I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
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