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Dorothy Parker

 

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania."

 "I can't write five words but that I change seven."

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."

 

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The Portable Dorothy Parker
This volume reprints her finest short stories and poems, some later articles, and all of her "Constant Reader" book reviews from the Depression-era glory days of the New Yorker. Ogden Nash once said, "To say that Mrs. Parker writes well is as fatuous, I am afraid, as proclaiming that Cellini was clever with his hands . . . Mrs. Parker has an eye for people, an ear for language, and a feeling for the little things of life that are so immensely a part of the process of living."



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