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Dorothy Parker
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[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.
--...
I might repeat...
I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn...
They sicken of...
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
Source: Fair Weather, Sunset Gun,...
You can't teach...
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
Source: In The Algonquin Wits, ed. by...
Brevity is the...
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Source: In Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is...
This is not...
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Byron and Shelley...
Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of lyrical treats.
Source: A Pig's-Eye...
Authors and actors...
Authors and actors and artists and such
Never know nothing, and never know much.
This living, this...
This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.
Source:...
Misfortune, and recited...
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and...
He lies below,...
He lies below, correct in cypress wood,
And entertains the most exclusive worms.