Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you. by Dorothy Parker

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

Dorothy Parker

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Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

writing men believe

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreis... by Dorothy Parker

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

theodore writing two

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me. by Dorothy Parker

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

suggesting epitaph

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

giving-up trying thinking

Money is only congealed snow. by Dorothy Parker

Money is only congealed snow.

snow

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight! by Dorothy Parker

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

tonight tomorrow gone

I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree.

gay spring thinking

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress. by Dorothy Parker

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

scratches actresses actors

Trapped like a trap in a trap by Dorothy Parker

Trapped like a trap in a trap

trapped traps

[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.

grandparent track people

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is u... by Dorothy Parker

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

age people years

The House Beautiful is the play lousy. by Dorothy Parker

The House Beautiful is the play lousy.

house play beautiful

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

glitter littles book

[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

ducks water hands

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffe... by Dorothy Parker

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

comparison fluff blow

Coolidge is dead" "How could they tell? by Dorothy Parker

Coolidge is dead" "How could they tell?

I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of t... by Dorothy Parker

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

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm. by Dorothy Parker

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.