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Недавно я стала перечитывать мою любимую Дороти Паркер. Для меня эта женщина сравнима разве что с непревзойденной Фаиной Георгиевной Раневской. Такая глубина и острота…, лирическо-драматическое настроение. Обожаю. Из любимого:

«I wish I could drink like a lady.
I can take one or two at the most.
Three and I’m under the table.
Four and I’m under the host.»

А это?:

«Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I’d been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.»

Или вот это…

«Lady, lady, never start
Conversation toward your heart;
Keep your pretty words serene;
Never murmur what you mean.
Show yourself, by word and look,
Swift and shallow as a brook.
Be as cool and quick to go
As a drop of April snow;
Be as delicate and gay
As a cherry flower in May.
Lady, lady, never speak
Of the tears that burn your cheek-
She will never win him, whose
Words had shown she feared to lose.
Be you wise and never sad,
You will get your lovely lad.
Never serious be, nor true,
And your wish will come to you-
And if that makes you happy, kid,
You’ll be the first it ever did.»

И к этому всему взять стаканчик, лед, лимон и виски и …Kelly Family

И жизнь прекрасна. Как ни крути.