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
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
Interpretation
Life is a continuous and beautiful experience, much like a song that keeps playing.
Dorothy Parker's quote suggests that life is an ever-evolving celebration filled with ups and downs, much like the various melodies in a song. This highlights the idea that life is rich with experiences, emotions, and moments that, while varied, contribute to a beautiful overall existence.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech about embracing lifeβs challenges.
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 canβt write five words but that I change seven.
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life.
But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.
I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
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