Dorothy Parker

“And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.”

“Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”

“Be you wise and never sad,You will get your lovely lad.Never serious be, nor true,And your wish will come to you--And if that makes you happy, kid,You'll be the first it ever did.”

“Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”

“Hold your pen and spare your voice.”

“This level reach of blue is not my sea; Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,Whose quiet ripples meet obediently A marked and measured line, one after one. This is no sea of mine. that humbly laves Untroubled sands, spread glittering and warm. I have a need of wilder, crueler waves; They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. So let a love beat over me again, Loosing its million desperate breakers wide; Sudden and terrible to rise and wane; Roaring the heavens apart; a reckless tide That casts upon the heart, as it recedes, Splinters and spars and dripping, salty weeds.”

“I shudder at the thought of men....I'm due to fall in love again”