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May Quotes by Dorothy Parker

12 May quotes by Dorothy Parker

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Dorothy Parker’s May observations are a compact set of twelve quips that blend her trademark sarcasm with a surprisingly tender view of the month. The lines offer a quick, entertaining glimpse into how she balanced humor and insight as the world thaws.

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His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

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ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And…

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Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by…

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I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be…

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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but…

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It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too,…

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[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held…

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“Observation" If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by…

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Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word…

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There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.…

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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

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“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.”

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

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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

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There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I…

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

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