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 that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
![Dorothy Parker Quote - [On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/on-being-shown-an-apartment-by-a-real-estate-agent-683x1024.jpg)
![Dorothy Parker Quote - If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/if-all-the-girls-attending-the-yale-prom-were-laid-683x1024.jpg)
