Quote #17

[On being told of Calvin Coolidge's death] How do they know?

More from Dorothy Parker

  1. It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
  2. There is no such hour on the present clock as 6:30, New York time. Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'…
  3. There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
  4. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
  5. One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
  6. You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
  7. I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the…
  8. [On her abortion] It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

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