“La cura para el aburrimiento es la curiosidad. No existe cura para la curiosidad.”
Variante: La cura para el aburrimiento es la curiosidad. Para la curiosidad no existe cura.
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Frases célebres de Dorothy Parker
“A un hombre sólo le pido tres cosas: que sea guapo, implacable y estúpido.”
Fuente: [Red] (2008), p. 40.
“Cualquier mujer que aspire a comportarse como un hombre, seguro que carece de ambición.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 458.
Dorothy Parker Frases y Citas
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Excuse My Dust <br class="br">Epitafio en la lápida de su tumba en Baltimore. <br class="br">Fuente: Marion Meade The Last Days of Dorothy Parker: The Extraordinary Lives of Dorothy https://books.google.es/books?isbn=1101627212; ed. 2014.
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“Es un alivio encontrar en un libro de leyes o reglas una que nunca te afectará.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 167.
Fuente: Citado por Darlene Criss en The Isolated M.
“Esa chica sabe hablar dieciocho idiomas, pero no sabe decir no en ninguno de ellos.”
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 315.
“El dinero de Hollywood no es dinero. Es nieve congelada, se funde en tu mano.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 227.
Fuente: Recogido por Malcolm Cowley en Writers at Work, 1958.
Dorothy Parker: Frases en inglés
Fuente: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
“I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me.”
"The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939)
Contexto: I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
From a review of the revised edition of “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White published in Esquire, November 1959.
“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”
On her abortion, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970)
Fuente: You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
16 August 1925
Enough Rope (1926)
"The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939)
Fuente: Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker
“You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.”
Fuente: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
Fuente: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Fuente: While Rome Burns
Contexto: And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all surprised.
“You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”
Fuente: Attributed to Parker after her death, by Robert E. Drennan The Algonquin Wits (1968), p. 124. However the same quip appears anonymously fifteen years earlier, in the trade journal Sales Management (Chicago: Dartnell Corp., 1918-75), vol. 70 (Survey of Buying Power, 1953), p. 80: "Marxism never changes. You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks."