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“Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!”

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Dorothy Parker, an American poet, playwright, and critic, was born on August 22, 1893, and died on June 7, 1967. Known for her wit, satire, and humor, she is a prominent figure in 20th-century American literature. more

“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.”

Mean Made Stories Hands Streets Hollywood Glasses Definitions Albums Cards Posts Dirty Flats Substitutes Towers Champagne Sophistication Obscene Ivory Obscenity

Author:Dorothy Parker

“...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.”

Ifs World Helping Taught Pencils Ink Erase Spit Outside World Erasers

Book:Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

“I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.”

Ifs Mind I Can Might Remember Profound Lists Damn Repeats Quotations Damn Things

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Scratch a king and find a fool!”

Fool Kings Scratches

Book:Not So Deep as a Well

Source: Not So Deep as a Well

“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.”

Stories Eye Remember Answers Poor Corners Phrases Find Me Poke Disraeli

Book:A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

“My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.”

My Own Missing Following Horrible Verses Exquisite Footsteps Sneakers

Book:The Uncollected Dorothy Parker

Source: The Uncollected Dorothy Parker

“A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.”

Firsts Made Shows Joy Mistake Comfortable Rate Lists Beloved

Book:Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words

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