Quote #3

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

More from Dorothy Parker

  1. And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.
  2. Well, Aimee Semple McPherson has written a book. And were you to call it a little peach, you would not be so much as scratching its surface…
  3. Excuse my dust.
  4. It is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
  5. That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
  6. The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.
  7. [A] lady ... with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.
  8. Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

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