{"author":"Dorothy Parker","author_id":"Dorothy+Parker","total_quotes":97,"quotes":[{"text":"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["bad-reviews","classic-insult","drama-critic","humor","katharine-hepburn"],"id":7790,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["personal","appearance"],"id":10828,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["beauty","classic-insult","humor","ugly"],"id":18073,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"I don't know,' she said. 'We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["dating","loneliness","marriage","relationships"],"id":24517,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"Women and elephants never forget.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["memory"],"id":29776,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["epitaph","humor","the-new-yorker"],"id":30096,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["reading"],"id":33602,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["adaptation","change","character","empowerment","love","men","nature","pleasing","self-discovery","self-esteem","self-respect","truthfulness","wisdom","women","youth"],"id":41592,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"They sicken of the calm who know the storm.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["peace"],"id":43485,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.', Summer 1956].","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["humor","the-paris-review","wisecracks","wit"],"id":46069,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":97,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}