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“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.”

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Dorothy Parker

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

“I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.”

Men World Firsts Eye Young Regret Theater Sticks Separation Young Man Gentleman Hats Gloves I Regret Barricades Overcoat

Author:Dorothy Parker

“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.”

Rain Corners Sheep Roof Find Me Counting Tin Anecdotes Tablets

Author:Dorothy Parker

“I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.”

Knows Enough Taste Brave Sake Be Brave Great Work Clinging Good Taste Tentacles

Author:Dorothy Parker

“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.”

Brain Fool Bird Horse Liars Thieves Apologizing Umbrella Superlatives This Is Me

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

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

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

Wish Poisonous Bacteria

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“Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.”

Thinking Giving Trying Sometimes Giving Up Stoves

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

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“It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.”

Turns Fun Social Source Entertainment Ice Gathering Skates Good Fun Parsley

Author:Dorothy Parker

“The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.”

People Years Age Five Five Years Seventies Neat Swiss Industrious

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

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“He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.”

Desire Turns Love Is Tears Forgiving Sigh Touch Me

Author:Isabel Allende

“I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.”

Ifs Book States Order Black Be Good California Dealer Mississippi Banned Banned Books

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

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