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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. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. August 1893 – 7. Juni 1967  •  Andere Namen Dorothy Parkerová
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“Two things made The Dice of the Gods, another play about drugs, seem much better than it had any real right to seem. One was that Morphia had come first, and once you had seen Morphia, nothing seemd so very terrible to you. p. 375”

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 6: 1923

“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).
Misattributed
Variante: If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.

“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

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

Dorothy Parker

Variante: I've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it.

“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

Variant of:<br>I wish I could drink like a lady.<br>“Two or three,” at the most.<br>But two, and I’m under the table—<br>And three, I&#x27;m under the host. <br class="br">The Harlequin, Volume 2, 1959, University of Virginia (page ? http://books.google.com/books?id=zdFKAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=%22under+the+table%22+%22under+the+host%22) <br class="br">Perhaps attributed due to “One more drink and I&#x27;d have been under the host.” (see above). <br class="br">“ 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 <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variante: One martini. Two at the most. Three I&#x27;m under the table, four I&#x27;m under the host! <br class="br">Quelle: The Collected Dorothy Parker

“What fresh hell is this?”

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?".
Variante: What fresh hell can this be?
Quelle: The Portable Dorothy Parker

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

Dorothy Parker

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

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”

Dorothy Parker

Parker's answer when asked to use the word horticulture during a game of Can-You-Give-Me-A-Sentence?, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970).
Quelle: You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”

Dorothy Parker

Caption written for Vogue 1916
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Quelle: While Rome Burns

“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.”

Dorothy Parker

A similar line was later used by Ira Gershwin in "The Saga of Jenny" in Lady in the Dark (1942): "In 27 languages she couldn't say no."
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Quelle: While Rome Burns

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