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Letter "D" » Dorothy Parker Quotes
«Somebody was using the pencil.»
«If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to try an epigram,/ I never seek to take the credit;/ We all assume that Oscar said it.»
«I never see that prettiest thing - / A cherry bough gone white with Spring - / But what I think, 'How gay 'twould be / To hang me from a flowering tree.'»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
bough, cherry, cherry tree, flowering, flowering tree, gay, hang, prettiest
«I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.»
«All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
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Childhood
| Keywords:
childhood, gentle, sit in, writers, write about, wrote
«The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.»
«Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.»
«There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.»
«Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.»
«Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.»
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