The Queen of the "Short and Lethal" Remarks
She was the poet and art critic Dorothy Parker, a member of the famous Algonquin Round Table - "The Vicious Circle"- that met for a decade for lunch at the Rose Room of the Algonquin Hotel in the New York of the 1920s.
The one-liner girl had the talent to bring to ashes any artwork with just a few words.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
I've been reading her book of poems Enough Rope from 1926. Her cleverness will delight modern women.
I liked "Inventory".
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
Sassy girl!