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Dorothy Parker
Seventy-two suburbs in...
Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
Source: Of Los Angeles, but others are...
She ran the...
She ran the whole gamut of her emotions from A to B.
Source: Of Katharine Hepburn...
And there was...
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...
Somebody was using...
Somebody was using the pencil.
Source: On why she missed a in New Yorker, deadline;...
There must be...
There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about...
How could they...
How could they tell?
Source: On being told of the death of former President Calvin...
There must be...
There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in...
As artists they're...
As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it...
The doctors were...
The doctors were very brave about it.
Source: Said after she had been seriously...
This is on...
This is on me.
Source: Suggested epitaph for her own tombstone; in You Might As...
[We look like]...
[We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.
Source: On lunching with James...
His ignorance was...
His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its...
Because he spills...
Because he spills his seed on the ground.
Source: On naming her canary 'Onan';...
That woman speaks...
That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say No in any of them.
Source: Said...
House Beautiful' is...
'House Beautiful' is the play lousy.
Source: Theater review.
-- Dorothy Parker,...
He and I...
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
You can lead...
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
Source: Speech to...
Good work, Mary....
Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
Source: Telegram to a friend who...
Oh, don't worry...
Oh, don't worry about Alan . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
Source:...
Outspoken by whom?...
Outspoken by whom?
Source: When told that she was very outspoken; attributed.
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