dorothy parker: badass bitch
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
“Excuse my dust.”
When told she was very outspoken: “Outspoken by whom?”
“I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I bet I’d be darling at it.”
“I only require three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.”
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
“Four be the things I’d been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.”
“Then if my friendships break and bend, There’s little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.”
“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgement.”
“Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.”
“On writing humor: There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he can’t follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
On writing humor: There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind.”
“On Isadora Duncan: There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.”
“Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour…the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.”
“Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.”
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