There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
Dorothy ParkerRead
Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the futility and hardship of seeking monogamous love in a promiscuous world.
Dorothy Parker's quote captures the sense of hopelessness that can accompany the pursuit of monogamy in an environment filled with transient relationships. It suggests that a relentless search for true love within such a superficial context can lead to despair and dissatisfaction, prompting the poet to imply that those who chase after it may be better off not pursuing it at all.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about modern dating challenges at a seminar.
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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.
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.
It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
The relationship that tests/frustrates/irritates you the most actually is one of your greatest blessings. Why? Because it reveals to you the very beliefs/fears and false assumptions that most limit you.
We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past. Now sense that you can release this burden of pain by gradually extending forgiveness as your heart is ready.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.
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