Frases de Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker, nacida como Dorothy Rothschild , fue una cuentista, dramaturga, crítica teatral, humorista, guionista y poeta estadounidense. Muy conocida por su cáustico ingenio, su sarcasmo y su afilada pluma a la hora de captar el lado oscuro de la vida urbana en el siglo XX. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. agosto 1893 – 7. junio 1967   •   Otros nombres Dorothy Parkerová
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Frases célebres de Dorothy Parker

“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.

“Cualquier mujer que aspire a comportarse como un hombre, seguro que carece de ambición.”

Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 458.

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Dorothy Parker Frases y Citas

“El arte es una forma de catársis.”

Fuente: [Ortega Blake] (2013), p. 452.

“Perdonen por el polvo”

Excuse My Dust
Epitafio en la lápida de su tumba en Baltimore.
Fuente: Marion Meade The Last Days of Dorothy Parker: The Extraordinary Lives of Dorothy https://books.google.es/books?isbn=1101627212; ed. 2014.

“La mujer y el elefante nunca olvidan.”

Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 485.

“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

“And it is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”

Her "Constant Reader" book review of The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, in The New Yorker (20 October 1928) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1928/10/20/reading-and-writing-27

“If the English version is in what, in our youth, we used to speak of affectionately as dear old iambic pentameter, the actors mercifully abstain from reciting it that way; they speak their lines as good, hardy prose. p. 76”

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 2: 1919

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

Widely attributed to Dorothy Parker and to Ellen Parr, but the origin is unknown.
Attributed

“Of course, there are many things to be said for the afternoon performance, chief among them being that it cuts in so generously on one’s work. p. 201”

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 4: 1921

“They exude an atmosphere of The New Republic—a sort of Crolier-than-thou air. p. 36”

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 1: 1918

“Katharine Hepburn delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.”

Woollcott writes in While Rome Burns that Parker had "recently...achieved an equal compression in reporting on The Lake, Miss Hepburn, it seems, had run the whole gamut from A to B." These words do not appear in Dorothy Parker's 1934 printed review of The Lake, but were elsewhere described as a spoken remark. "'We might as well go back,' said Dorothy Parker during an intermission of The Lake in 1934, 'and watch Katharine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.'"
"Hepburn From A to B : Close-up of a Stage Struck Youngster" by Alan Jackson, in Cinema Arts Vol. 1 No. 2, (July 1937)
Our Mrs Parker (1934)

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”

Quoted in The Algonquin Wits (1968) edited by Robert E. Drennan, and The Dispatch http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=r04cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WFEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7250,5269688&dq=aside-lightly+dorothy-parker&hl=en (October 1962). As noted at Snopes, Drennan's source seems to be a Parker review which does not seem to contain this quote. If Parker wrote this statement anywhere the primary source seems to have gone missing.
The earliest attribution of this quote was published in the February 1960 Readers' Digest, and credited to a book review by Sid Ziff in the Los Angeles Mirror-News, which existed from 1955 to 1960. This is a little odd, considering that Sid Ziff was a sports columnist; the reference in Readers' Digest has been confirmed but the quote from the Mirror-News has not - see Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/26/great-force/#more-5787 for details.
Misattributed

“All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.”

Interview in The Paris Review, Issue #13 http://books.google.com/books?id=iZt6sBaHemQC&q="all+those+writers+who+write+about+their+childhood+gentle+god+if+i+wrote+about+mine+you+wouldn't+sit+in+the+same+room+with+me"&pg=PA8#v=onepage (Summer 1956)

“If you arrive late, you won’t know what anything is about, and if you are there all the way from the beginning, you won’t care. p. 277”

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 5: 1922

“There is one thing about Fiddlers Three, though, that held my attention all through the evening: Try as I might I could only discern two fiddlers. p. 42”

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 1: 1918

“And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.”

Regarding a character in Elinor Glyn's novel It; in her review, "Madame Glyn Lectures on 'It,' with Illustrations" in The New Yorker (26 November 1927)

“A lady … with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.”

Concerning a child actress in A. A. Milne's play Give Me Yesterday; in her review of same, "Just Around Pooh Corner" in The New Yorker (14 March 1931)

“Sinbad is produced in accordance with the fine old Shubert precept that nothing succeeds like undress. p. 6”

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 1: 1918

“And I'll stay away from Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.”

"The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939); this plays on the title of the popular song "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows"; Paul Verlaine was Arthur Rimbaud's lover.

“Dotty had
Great Big
Visions of
Quietude.
Dotty saw an
Ad, and it
Left her
Flat.
Dotty had a
Great Big
Snifter of
Cyanide.
And that (said Dotty)
Is that.”

"When We Were Very Sore (Lines on Discovering That You Have Been Advertised as America's A. A. Milne)", first printed in New York World (10 March 1927) p. 15; based on A. A. Milne's "Happiness"
Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker (1996)

“And you remember, Rabbi Wise has declared, in a heated moment, that our plays seem to be written for the hosiery buyers. If Dr. Wise had only witnessed our new summer reviews, he doubtless would have amended his statement to read “by the hosiery buyers.””

Fuente: Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 2: 1919, p.89

“The musical comedies of the month are She’s a Good Fellow and The Lady in Red, both of which owe their book and lyrics to Anne Caldwell—evidently a native of New York, judged by the casualness with which she rhymes “teacher” and “reach a.””

Fuente: Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 2: 1919, p. 82

“It is advertised as “a seagoin’ comedy,” and anytime they go leaving off the final g that way, you know what to expect. p. 324”

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 5: 1922

“Rockliffe Fellowes gives a likable performance of the secondary crook’s rôle, and there are some decidedly agreeable-looking doughnuts consumed in the first act. And that is about all one can say for Pot Luck.”

Fuente: Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 5: 1922, p. 260