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About Dorothy Parker by Donal Clancy: Reblog
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) week here at Happiness Between Tails continues! Ever the master of using a brilliant bow of wit to snare darkness with light, here’s three more of her famed quotations …
“I hate writing. I love having written.”
“Living well is the best revenge.”
“I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.”
a poem …
Razors pain you.
Rivers are damp.
Acids stain you and
drugs cause cramps.
Guns aren’t lawful.
Nooses give.
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.
Have you read or watched anything by Dorothy Parker?
and another guest blog post …
Born on this day in 1893 Dorothy Parker, writer & poet is possibly best known for her famous wit. Her one liners are sharp as a knife. Lines like “A girls best friend is her mutter” or “The cure for boredom is curiosity, there is no cure for curiosity”. Her wit developed at an early age when she lost her mother and her father remarried. She refused to call her stepmother anything civil and referred to her as the housekeeper.
She joked that she married to cover up her Jewish background and avoid anti-Semitism. She was an avid anti-fascist and became aligned with left leaning politics in the 1930s. She was blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s McCarthy era as a communist.
“Excuse my dust” was her suggestion for her epitaph. When she died in 1967 she bequeathed her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After his death her estate…
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Dorothy Parker “I wore my love like a red, wet stain on the breast of a velvet gown” by Summer Pierre: Reblog
Honoring amazing writer Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967), beloved as much for her honest and imaginative pen as for her witty and unique personality.
What’s something witty that especially touched you?
Here Summer Pierre has composed a lovely drawing …
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Happy Birthday, Dorothy Parker
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Female Shamans and Art in San Jose, Costa Rica
Women have been esteemed in Costa Rica for eons!
