"There's life for you. Spend the best years……" — Dorothy Parker

"There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil."

— Dorothy Parker

256 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker has 256 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the…
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
Every fashion, the fashion before: in a duller dress.
She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much, but I shall stay the way I…
Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.
Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew…
Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

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In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of… — Christopher Paolini
But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this… — Ken Kesey
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was… — Karl Rove
Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon,… — A. N. Wilson
Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in… — Burton Raffel
Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep… — Burton Raffel
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF. — Woody Allen
She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all… — Cornelia Funke
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If… — Julie Taymor

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