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Dorothy Parker

Geburtstag: 22. August 1893
Todesdatum: 7. Juni 1967
Andere Namen:Dorothy Parkerová

Dorothy Parker war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin, Theater- und Literaturkritikerin. Sie wurde zu den bedeutendsten Autorinnen ihrer Zeit gerechnet. Sie schrieb zahlreiche Gedichte, Kurzgeschichten und mehrere Theaterstücke. In ihren Texten thematisiert sie den Geschlechterkampf anhand von Szenen aus dem Leben verschiedener Frauen aller Bildungsschichten sowie die gesellschaftliche Stellung von Minderheiten.

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„I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.“

— Dorothy Parker

„Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.“

— Dorothy Parker

„If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.“

— Dorothy Parker
Man and the Gospel (1865) by Thomas Guthrie "and you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it." “We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.” -- Alexander Pope (1727).

„The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.“

— Dorothy Parker

„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.“

— Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

„By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.“

— Dorothy Parker

„In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.“

— Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

„I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I’m under the table,
After four I’m under my host.“

— Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker
Variant of: I wish I could drink like a lady. “Two or three,” at the most. But two, and I’m under the table— And three, I'm under the host. The Harlequin, Volume 2, 1959, (page ? http://books.google.com/books?id=zdFKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22under+the+table%22+%22under+the+host%22) Perhaps attributed due to “One more drink and I'd have been under the host.” (see above). “ Martini Madness: Dorothy Parker didn’t write the famous quatrain about martinis that’s always attributed to her. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drink/features/2013/martini_madness_tournament/sweet_16/dorothy_parker_martini_poem_why_the_attribution_is_spurious.html”, Troy Patterson, Slate, April 8, 2013

„Too fucking busy, and vice versa.“

— Dorothy Parker
Response to an editor pressuring her for overdue work, as quoted in The Unimportance of Being Oscar (1968) by Oscar Levant, p. 89

„What fresh hell is this?“

— Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
"If the doorbell rang in her apartment, she would say, 'What fresh hell can this be?' — and it wasn't funny; she meant it." You might as well live: the life and times of Dorothy Parker, John Keats (Simon Schuster, 1970, p124). Often quoted as "What fresh hell is this?" as in the title of the 1987 biography by Marion Meade, "Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?".

„They sicken of the calm who know the storm.“

— Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

„If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.“

— Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

„Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.“

— Dorothy Parker
Context: That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. "But the One on the Right" in The New Yorker (1929)