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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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''Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).
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''Gratitude—the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).
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As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. And there was that p...
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).
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''All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).
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I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name...
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).
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''Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. repr. in The Portable Dorothy Parker, pt. 2 (1944, revised 1973). "Mrs. Post Enlarges on Etiquette,"...
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''Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. News Item, Enough Rope (1926).
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''He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses them.... He can take you to a bicycle race and make it raise your hair.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. New Yorker (November 30, 1929).
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''Tonstant Weader fwowed up.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. New Yorker (Oct. 20, 1928), repr. in The Collected Dorothy Parker, pt. 2 (1973).
Closing words o...
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''Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.''
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. One Perfect Rose, st. 3, Enough Rope (1926).
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