Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
Dorothy ParkerRésumé
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.
Mots clés humor suicide dark-humor
Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
Dorothy ParkerMots clés the-new-yorker
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy ParkerMots clés humor motherhood parenting parenthood empty-nest
Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
Dorothy ParkerMots clés survival new-york-city twilight esquire
There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."
[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956]
Mots clés humor wit the-paris-review wisecracks
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 billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
Dorothy ParkerMots clés snarls
Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
Dorothy ParkerThree be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Mots clés humor
Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
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