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Dorothy Parker
Why, that dog...
Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I don't say she...
Drink, and dance...
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But,...
Excuse my dust....
Excuse my dust.
Source: Alternative epitaph; in While Rome Burns, Our Mrs. Parker...
Take care of...
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
Source:...
Check enclosed....
Check enclosed.
Source: Giving her version of the two most beautiful words in the...
Every year, back...
Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with...
How do people...
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack.
I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with...
Scratch an actor...
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.
Source: Attributed.
-- Dorothy...
As only New...
As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the...
Gratitude -- the...
Gratitude -- the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
Source: In...
All those writers...
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same...
She had spent...
She had spent the golden time in grudging its going.
Source: The Lovely Leave, in...
I was fired...
I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was...
I misremember who...
I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too...
Hollywood money isn't...
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
I can't talk...
I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't...
Lips that taste...
Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing.
Source:...
Just begin a...
Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...
If you're going...
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that...
I'd like to...
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if...