dorothy parker

• 1893 doğumlu new yorklu kadın eleştirmen şair, öykü ve senaryo yazarı. sansasyonel, sivri dilli, ayarcı kişilik. kaba, öfkeli, kötümser, ironik dizelerin yazarı...bi de yazıldıkları yıllar düşünülünce ..
• "i like to have a martini,
  two at the very most.
  after three i'm under the table,
  after four i'm under my host!"
• oh, gallant was the first love, and glittering and fine;
  the second love was water, in a clear white cup;
  the third love was his, and the fourth was mine;
  and after that, i always get them all mixed up.
• 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
• "salary is no object:
  i want only enough to keep body and soul apart."
• "this is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.
  it should be thrown aside with great force."
  
  "he is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in
  his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically and
  aggressively unattractive that one is fairly shaken to ponder
  how little one has been missing."
  
  (eleştirilerinden alıntı)
• unfortunate coincidence
  
  by the time you swear you're his,
  shivering and sighing,
  and he vows his passion is
  infinite, undying -
  lady, make a note of this:
  one of you is lying.
  
  ha ha ha. hıh.
• interview
  
  the ladies men admire, i've heard,
  would shudder at a wicked word.
  their candle gives a single light;
  they'd rather stay at home at night.
  they do not keep awake till three,
  nor read erotic poetry.
  they never sanction the impure,
  nor recognize an overture.
  they shrink from powders and from paints.
  so far, i have had no complaints.
• surprise
  
  my heart went fluttering with fear
  lest you should go, and leave me here
  to beat my breast and rock my head
  and stretch me sleepless on my bed.
  ah, clear they see and true they say
  that one shall weep, and one shall stray
  for such is love's unvarying law....
  i never thought, i never saw
  that i should be the first to go;
  how pleasant that it happened so!
• alan rudolph, kendisini konu alan mrs parker and the vicious circle adli bir film cekmistir. dorothy parker i jennifer jason leigh canlandirmistir.