Dorothy Parker

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I’m under the table,
after four I’m under my host.”

“Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”

“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.”

“If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”

“So, you’re the man who can’t spell ‘fuck.'”
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, ‘fug,’ in his 1948 book, “The Naked and the Dead.”

“His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.”

“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.”

“I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.”

“When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”

“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”

Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967

Thank you, Dorothy

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