Dorothy Parker citations

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“Je ne peux être juste pour les livres qui traitent de la femme en tant que femme… Mon idée c'est que tous, aussi bien hommes que femmes, qui que nous sayons, nous devons être considérés comme d'êtres humaines.”

“Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.”

“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”

“I'll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he'll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”

“I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.”

“Trapped like a trap in a trap”

“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”

“Never complain, never explain.”

“Excuse my dust.”

“Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.”

“This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.”

“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.”

“Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.”

“Once, when I was young and true.
Someone left me sad -
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.”

“There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.”

“Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme --
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.”

“It costs me never a stab nor squirm

To tread by chance upon a worm.

"Aha, my little dear," I say,

"Your clan will pay me back some day."”

“Ah, clear they see and true they say
That one shall weep, and one shall stray”

“They say of me, and so they should,
It's doubtful if I come to good.”

“She can sit up and beg, and
she can give her paw —
I don't say she will, but she can.”

“Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them”

“Hold your pen and spare your voice.”

“Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.”

“How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack.”

“For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels…. And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.”

“I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets…. you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.”

“I'm of the glamorous ladies
At whose beckoning history shook.
But you are a man, and see only my pan,
So I stay at home with a book.”

“Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat
My dress is 1922…
My life is all like that.”

“tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!”

“I can’t write five words but that I change seven.”