Dorothy Parker

Why, that dog...

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...

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Drink, and dance...

Drink, and dance...

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But,...

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Excuse my dust....

Excuse my dust....

Excuse my dust.

Source: Alternative epitaph; in While Rome Burns, Our Mrs. Parker...

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Take care of...

Take care of...

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

Source:...

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Check enclosed....

Check enclosed....

Check enclosed.

Source: Giving her version of the two most beautiful words in the...

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Every year, back...

Every year, back...

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with...

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How do people...

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...

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Scratch an actor...

Scratch an actor...

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

Source: Attributed.
-- Dorothy...

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As only New...

As only New...

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the...

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Gratitude -- the...

Gratitude -- the...

Gratitude -- the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

Source: In...

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All those writers...

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...

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She had spent...

She had spent...

She had spent the golden time in grudging its going.

Source: The Lovely Leave, in...

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I was fired...

I was fired...

I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was...

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I misremember who...

I misremember who...

I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too...

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Hollywood money isn't...

Hollywood money isn't...

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

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I can't talk...

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...

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Lips that taste...

Lips that taste...

Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing.


Source:...

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Just begin a...

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...

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If you're going...

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...

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I'd like to...

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...

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