I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.    Dorothy Parker

(Parker)

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.    Anais Nin

(Nin)

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.   Dorothy Parker

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.    Anais Nin 

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.    Dorothy Parker

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. Anais Nin

I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.    Dorothy Parker

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.     Anais Nin

My land is bare of chattering folk;
the clouds are low along the ridges,
and sweet's the air with curly smoke
from all my burning bridges.    Dorothy Parker

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.    Anais Nin

If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.    Dorothy Parker

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”     Anais Nin

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

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.    Anais Nin

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.      Dorothy Parker

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.    Anais Nin

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.    Dorothy Parker