Frasi di Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker, nata Dorothy Rothschild , è stata una scrittrice, poetessa e giornalista statunitense, nota anche con i diminutivi di Dot o Dottie.

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✵ 22. Agosto 1893 – 7. Giugno 1967   •   Altri nomi Dorothy Parkerová
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“I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me.”

"The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939)
Contesto: I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”

On her abortion, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970)
Origine: You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

“I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.”

"The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939)
Origine: Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker

“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”

Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Origine: While Rome Burns
Contesto: And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all surprised.

“You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”

Origine: Attributed to Parker after her death, by Robert E. Drennan The Algonquin Wits (1968), p. 124. However the same quip appears anonymously fifteen years earlier, in the trade journal Sales Management (Chicago: Dartnell Corp., 1918-75), vol. 70 (Survey of Buying Power, 1953), p. 80: "Marxism never changes. You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks."

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