Dorothy Parker: The Portable Dorothy Parker
Because she can go from this poem
Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acid stains you
And drugs cause you cramp
Guns aren't lawful
Nooses give
Gas smells awful
You might as well live
To This...
Men seldom makes passes
At Girls who wear glasses
And then back to This gem
By the time you swear you're his
Shivering and Sighing
And he vows his passion is
Infiinite, undying-
Lady, make a note of this\;
One of you is lying.
Tim Page: The Diaries of Dawn Powell
She's as prophetic as the man of whom she speaks (gore vidal) back in 1954 "something of Disraeli-a high, patrician, Solomon-like judgement and philosphic power, with wit, poetry and music. Not to be fit in any fashion, but will outlive them all, like the great ones"...