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Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 13

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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

Writing, Facts, Being The Best

People are more than fun than anybody.

Fun, People

[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

Ducks, Hands, Water

Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

Plot, Epitaph, Involved

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

Eye, Phrases, Stories

Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.

People, Track, Grandparent

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.

Suicide, Dream, Heart

Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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.

Book, Thinking, Two

Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.

Writing, Hands, Snow

Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

Epitaph, Suggesting

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

Memorable, Mary, Dear

Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934)

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.

New York, Serious, Proposal

Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.101, Penguin

Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.

Play, Streets

Money is only congealed snow.

Snow

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

Book, Glitter, Littles

And where does she find them?

Doe, Moral, Manners

Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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