"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?"

Coda, Dorothy Parker
@1 month ago with 12 notes

"I shall come back without fanfaronade
Of wailing wind and graveyard panoply;
But, trembling, slip from cool Eternity-
A mild and most bewildered little shade.
I shall not make sepulchral midnight raid,
But softly come where I had longed to be
In April twilight’s unsung melody,
And I, not you, shall be the one afraid.
Strange, that from lovely dreamings of the dead
I shall come back to you, who hurt me most.
You may not feel my hand upon your head,
I’ll be so new and inexpert a ghost.
Perhaps you will not know that I am near-
And that will break my ghostly heart, my dear."

I Shall Come Back, Dorothy Parker
@2 months ago with 4 notes
lillian hellman and dorothy parker 

lillian hellman and dorothy parker 

@2 months ago
@2 months ago

"

If I had a shiny gun,
I could have a world of fun
Speeding bullets through the brains
Of the folk who give me pains;

Or had I some poison gas,
I could make the moments pass
Bumping off a number of
People whom I do not love.

But I have no lethal weapon-
Thus does Fate our pleasure step on!
So they still are quick and well
Who should be, by rights, in hell.

"

Frustration, Dorothy Parker
@2 months ago with 3 notes

"Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common."

Dorothy Parker (via tryphena) (via obliteratedheart) (via atoms)
@2 months ago with 171 notes

"Four be the things I’d have been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."

Dorothy Parker 
@2 months ago
Algonquin Round Table, Albert Hirschfeld  At the table, clockwise from left: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Franklin P. Adams, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood. In back from left to right: Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, Vanity Fair editor Frank Crowninshield and Frank Case.

Algonquin Round Table, Albert Hirschfeld 

At the table, clockwise from left: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Franklin P. Adams, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood. In back from left to right: Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, Vanity Fair editor Frank Crowninshield and Frank Case.

@2 months ago