#dorothyparker — Public Fediverse posts
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"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."Resumé - #DorothyParker
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Hearts2Hearts -- Juun
In 1926, Dorothy Parker published "News Item", her two line poem claiming that spectacles make a woman unattractive.
"Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses."A century later, Juun is one of many Kpop idols who might persuade us to think otherwise.
#Kpop #KpopPix #Juun #Hearts2Hearts #DorothyParker #Glasses #Spectacles
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>> Notiz-Nachtrag zu #DorothyParker: spinn ich, bin ich doof, oder gibt es tatsächlich immer noch keinerlei Text-Sammlung von Parkers politischem Wirken, ihren Reden, ihren Beiträgen z.B. zu der in Hollywood verlegten »Anti-Nazi News«?
https://calisphere.org/item/8087762503a885d07195e9fabef0ed46/
#FrauenLesen #Antifa -
Als Teen über den Haffmans Verlag entdeckt, bis heute Fan von #DorothyParker. Schön, dass ›mythic woman‹ nun auf ihrem YT-Kanal einen schönen Biographie-Essay über sie bietet.
Typisch: gibt zwar (feinen) Film über ihre lebhaften Läster-Zeiten im New York der 1910er/20er, aber keinen über ihr Engagement als politische Korrespondentin im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg, ihre #Antifa-Leidenschaft in Hollywood, oder wie McCarthy-Wüten ihr den Mund verbieten wollte.
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"It looks strange and it looks strange, and it looks very strange, and then suddenly it does not look strange at all, and you cannot understand what made it look strange in the first place."
Poet Gertrude Stein, quoted by great physicist and master of the English language John Archibald Wheeler, quoted by his pupil and master physicist Kip S Thorne. (I love this chain.)
Absolutely the rule of genuine discovery, and the secret to becoming a discoverer. Embrace strangeness.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.06623
#JohnArchibaldWheeler #KipSThorne #DorothyParker #discovery #EmbraceStrangeness #noAI
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Coda
There's little in taking or giving,
There's little in water or wine;
This living, this living, this living
was never a project of mine.
Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is
The gain of the one at the top,
For art is a form of catharsis,
And love is a permanent flop,
And work is the province of cattle,
And rest's for a clam in a shell,
So I'm thinking of throwing the battle--
Would you kindly direct me to hell?-- Dorothy Parker
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My favourite C-Tec song is an EBM marriage with Dorothy Parker lyrics. https://youtu.be/TMryW_W295M?si=CRLT19I_Oyl-Ae73 #EBM #Industrial #CTec #Front242 #DorothyParker #ElectronicMusic #music #goth #Epitaph #poetry
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Oe, maar nu kan ik een toot van jou muzikaal omlijsten!
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Dorothy Parker
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With deepest apologies to #DorothyParker:
On Being a Worm
Why is it when I am on a stone,
I'd give one of my hearts to be at home,
But when nestled in my native earth so sweet,
My soul is sick for the sidewalk's concrete?https://www.best-poems.net/dorothy_parker/on_being_a_woman.html
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Myriam Gendron - "Not So Deep As A Well" (2013)
#NowPlaying #MyriamGendron #DorothyParker #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/album/not-so-deep-as-a-well-expanded-version
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A fun part of our #BowieBookClub pick this month are these little manuscript peeks for each author interviewed in the Writers at Work collection from the #parisreview
#dorothyparker #authorinterviews @bookstodon -
"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.""Resumé" from "Enough Rope" (1926) by Dorothy Parker.
#poetry #suicide #DorothyParker #ViciousCircle #EnoughRope -
“I hate writing, I love having written.” #dorothyparker
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“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
Happy birthday #dorothyparker -
The great Dorothy Parker died on this day in 1967. One of the most quotable of authors. My personal favourite...
"If all the girls at the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised!"
😂 😂 😂
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Interestingly, PG #Wodehouse was the theater reviewer (or whatever) previous to #DorothyParker in the same spot.
I read through a collection of DP's play reviews and there are some gems in there. I've also read some non-#Jeeves Wodehouse and it's pretty boring.
He really hit on something with that invention and did a good job making it work for decades.
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Dorothy Parker gave good quote - and this little gem is one I hadn't seen before.
"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."
(womensart1 used the quote on Instagram, which is how I learned, very belatedly, of its existence.)
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“God keep me from chauvinism, but New York is beautiful. Oh, this is a lovely city you have here! I think that your skyline is astounding, and that your women are the most attractive in the world, but that there is a certain amount of exaggeration in the report that your men think of nothing but business, business, business, all the time. If it is true, then wherever did I get these bruises on my neck?”
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When reviewing a very florid-sounding book:
“The sun becomes "that round orb of day" (as opposed, I expect, to those square orbs you see about so much lately).”
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I’m reading a #DorothyParker collection that includes a bunch of her Constant Reader columns, and I promise not to flood the whole local timeline with quotes, but I have to share this one:
“Ava was young and slender and proud. And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.”
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The cure for boredom
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
~ Dorothy Parkerslip:4a242.
#DorothyParker #Quotes
