Sunset Gun Quotes

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

“And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

“Accursed from their birth they be
Who seek to find monogamy,
Pursuing it from bed to bed—
I think they would be better dead.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

“One more drink and I'd have been under the host.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

“For this my mother wrapped me warm,
And called me home against the storm,
And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,
And gave me roughage in my diet,
And tucked me in my bed at eight,
And clipped my hair, and marked my weight,
And watched me as I sat and stood:
That I might grow to womanhood
To hear a whistle and drop my wits
And break my heart to clattering bits.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems