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

Dorothy Parker

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
DOROTHY PARKER

Best Books Hands Myself Run
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER

Diamond Health Money Myself
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
DOROTHY PARKER

Old Teaching Trick Yourself
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKER

Food Forever People
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER

Appearance Girl Man Wear
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
DOROTHY PARKER

Death Growth Rose Willing
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKER

Easy Love People Sweet Yourself
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER

Book Force Funny Greatness Light
If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
DOROTHY PARKER

Appearance Clothes Fashion Party Yourself
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
DOROTHY PARKER

Friendship Greatness Happiness Present Writing Young
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKER

Alcohol Quick Vice
Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKER

Myself Tone View Voice
People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
DOROTHY PARKER

Death People Young
If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER

Care Fun Myself Stay
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
DOROTHY PARKER

Act Quick
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.
DOROTHY PARKER

Goodness Money Myself Togetherness Writing

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

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