“I do wish that as long as they are translating the thing, they would go right on ahead, while they’re at it, and translate Fedor Vasilyevich Protosov and Georgei Dmitrievich Abreskov and Ivan Petrovich Alexandrov into Joe and Harry and Fred.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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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 lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“Wit has truth in it … wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“…I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives’ tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen ….”
Dorothy Parker
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“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
Dorothy Parker
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“Work is the province of cattle.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
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“The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wit
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“It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Tragedy
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“This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sorrow
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“Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.”
Dorothy Parker
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“Art is a form of catharsis.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Acting
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“Enjoyed it! One more drink and I’d have been under the host.”
Dorothy Parker
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“I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.”
Dorothy Parker
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“Scratch a lover, and find a foe.”
Dorothy Parker
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“I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.”
Dorothy Parker
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“You can lead a whore to culture but you can’t make her think.”
Dorothy Parker
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“Hollywood money isn’t money. It’s congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.”
Dorothy Parker
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hollywood
