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Dorothy Parker: Resume (as recited by Jennifer Jason Leigh)

03-05-2011 at 04:36:49 PM

Dorothy Parker: Resume (as recited by Jennifer Jason Leigh)

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Résumé

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.


Dorothy Parker,

Last edited by feldmarschal 03-05-2011 at 04:41:48 PM

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.