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Mon Dec-13-04 04:22 PM
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one of these pic posts that has a chance of actually resulting in an interesting thread.
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:22 PM
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a horticulture but you can't make her think.
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:26 PM
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8. of course the best thing about this quote |
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is that it is her response to "please use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence....
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:24 PM
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Parker was so damn cool. She's one of my role models!
Here are two of her great quotes:
"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common"
"I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid."
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:24 PM
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4. I love a martini with dinner, |
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Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 04:26 PM by GliderGuider
One or two at the most. Three, I'm under the table, Four, I'm under the host.
(Edit for typo. *sigh*)
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:25 PM
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5. One more drink and I'll wind up under the host. |
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:25 PM
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6. She ran the gamut of emotions |
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Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 04:26 PM by LisaM
from A to B.
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:26 PM
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7. "If all the girls at the Yale prom were laid end-to-end... |
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Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 04:51 PM by Richardo
...I wouldn't be the least bit surprised." :D
One of my top 5 favorite writers
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:27 PM
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:27 PM
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10. This is not a book that should be tossed aside lightly |
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It should be heaved with great force.
If only HS English teachers could have such leverage...
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:29 PM
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11. "House Beautiful" is a play lousy." |
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:34 PM
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12. when a snooty woman paused before a door while entering |
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the room for dinner, she stupidly said to Dorothy, "Age before beauty."
Dorothy smiled and went on, saying, "Pearls before swine."
I love her. The female Oscar Wilde.
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:36 PM
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I would have loved to sat with her at the Algonquin round table.
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:38 PM
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14. I think that is the best picture I've ever seen of her... |
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:49 PM
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15. "men don't make passes, |
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at girls who wear glasses"
That may not be exact, but still a great quote. I was lucky enough to have a friend recommend her to me for a highschool paper, but I haven't read any of her writing since then. I would probably get much more out of it now (about ten years later).
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Mon Dec-13-04 04:50 PM
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"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."
That quote had me feeling self-conscious about wearing my glasses for years while I was in school.
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Mon Dec-13-04 05:04 PM
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I don't think that the intention was to ever make women feel self-conscious :)
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Mon Dec-13-04 05:04 PM
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But to a ninth-grader with no context, well - you know.
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Mon Dec-13-04 05:02 PM
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17. Like Shirley Maclaine... |
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She was accepted into an all male club because she wasn't willing to be excluded from the fun. And she sure could drink.:toast:
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Mon Dec-13-04 05:05 PM
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20. I've never seen those two linked in any way before... |
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...what 'all-male' club was Shirley Maclaine part of?
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Mon Dec-13-04 05:29 PM
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22. The Rat Pack, silly! n/t |
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Mon Dec-13-04 05:30 PM
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...but Rat Pack <> Algonquin Round Table IMO; and Shirley Maclaine <> Dorothy Parker. :)
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Mon Dec-13-04 05:43 PM
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Both, however, were "boys' clubs," and you really had to be able drink to get in! :)
I wouldn't have used the analogy either, but I got the reference, and I was just sharin'.
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Mon Dec-13-04 05:06 PM
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Mon Dec-13-04 09:12 PM
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25. "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity..." |
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"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, was against her better judgement".
and, my favorite, "Take care of the luxuries, and the necessities will take care of themselves".
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Mon Dec-13-04 09:17 PM
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26. "If I abstain from fun and such, |
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I'll probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn."
And a big tip of the hat to Jennifer Jason Leigh, who portrayed her so magnificnetly in MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE (1994)!
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Mon Dec-13-04 09:22 PM
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27. Ah, yes. The quickest wit of the 20th Century possibly.... |
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a great quote when Thurber dared her to use a sentance with horticulture...
DP "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her learn anything."
Inspiring mind.
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