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Book Quotes by Dorothy Parker
- This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.
- I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
- It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.
- This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
- You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant…
- The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever…
- His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
- Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep…
- I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the…
- I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home…
- But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also,…
- I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all…
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