“One more drink and I’ll be under the host.”
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
When asked if she was going to join Alcoholics Anonymous: “Certainly not. They want me to stop now.”
It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: “Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment’.”
and of course
THANX!!!!!! Dubie/Gigoid (Have I got that right yet) I’m trying to follow you but have been having problems navigating…..I think I have it now. dru
I LOVE Dorothy Parker! Your father has excellent taste. I’m here from Donna’s blog party, love this post!
Than you sour for stopping by and I love this post too. She is also one of my favorite poet but more for the humorous and not so much the melancholy. My father was a kick and a bastard all rolled up into a philosopher and a physician. ~~dru~~
I liked her ups and her downs. I did a post on her a few years ago, I found her to be a fascinating person.