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Excuse my dust
- “Excuse my dust”: these are the words that Dorothy Parker suggested for her own epitaph. They made it onto the plaque that marks the spot where her ashes rest – somewhat incongruously – in Baltimore.
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Mar 31, 2004 · Combing through her stories, poems, articles, reviews, correspondence, and even her rare journalism and song lyrics, editor Barry Day has selected and arranged passages that describe her life and its preoccupations-urban living, the theater and cinema, the battle of the sexes, and death by dissipation.
Jun 7, 2017 · “Excuse my dust”: these are the words that Dorothy Parker suggested for her own epitaph. They made it onto the plaque that marks the spot where her ashes rest – somewhat incongruously – in...
A Certain Lady. ‘A Certain Lady’ is a well-known Parker poem that uses clear, expressive language. The speaker mourns the fact that the person she loves does not love her in return. She wants this person to spend as much time with her as possible, but her affection is not returned with the same degree of dedication.
May 1, 2019 · Here, then, is Dorothy Parker, as far as possible in her own words. She was born Dorothy Rothschild on 22 August 1893, two months premature: “The last time I was ever early for anything.” Her father was not one of the banker Rothschilds; he was a successful Jewish garment manufacturer in New York.
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Jun 22, 2020 · To the extent that Dorothy Parker was a satirist she was also a moralist. In satirizing aimless, frivolous, or social-climbing lives, she implied a purposeful ideal. In ridiculing self-deception, hypocrisy, obsequiousness, and flattery, she advocated honesty in behavior and communication. In her epigrams, the moralist’s rapiers, she could ...
Feb 17, 1991 · Now Ollstein has assembled a collection of Parker’s quips and writings--and tied them together with her own words--in the one-woman show, “Laughter, Hope and a Sock in the Eye,”...
Jun 7, 2017 · The ones I like, though, are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.'” (quoted in Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker) For turning down a proposal: “By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this—. One of you is lying.” (her poem “Unfortunate ...
