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Dorothy Parker
(1893 - 1967 / New Jersey / United States)
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193 poems of Dorothy Parker
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''...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. author and humorist. As quoted in The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker, ch. 2, by Leslie Frewin (1986).
At age six, Parke...
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''Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. author and humorist. As quoted in The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker, ch. 11, by Leslie Frewin (1986).
Parker was a gra...
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''I have heard it said that it took Messrs. Shipman and Hymer [the playwrights] just three- and-a-half days to write their drama. I should like to know what they were doing during the three days.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. author and humorist. As quoted in The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker, ch. 10, by Leslie Frewin (1986).
On a review, wri...
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''I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. author and humorist. As quoted in You Might as Well Live, part 1, ch. 6, by John Keats (1970).
Parker was recalli...
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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticated story is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and ...
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. author and humorist. As quoted in You Might as Well Live, part 3, ch. 6, by John Keats (1970).
From a speech give...
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''Scratch a lover, and find a foe.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Ballade of a Great Weariness, Enough Rope (1926).
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''People Who Do things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance!''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. author and humorist. "Bohemia," lines 9-10 (c. late 1920s).
The poem is a put-down of tedious, self-absorbed "aut...
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''Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Comment, Enough Rope (1926).
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''... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. author and humorist. Constant Reader, column dated February 11, 1928 (1970).
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You don't want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a...
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. author, book reviewer, and humorist. Constant Reader, ch. 12 (1970).
From a column dated February 4, 1928, in whi...
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