Creative Quotations from Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Dorothy Parker
(1893-1967) born on Aug 22

US "author, poet, journalist, humorist". "She was the celebrated caustic wit of the 1920s; wrote "Enough Rope," 1926 and "The Little Hours," 1944."

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."

"Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you."

"Oh, don't worry about Alan . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet."

Outspoken by whom?

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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"On sharing space with Robert Benchley while working on "Vanity Fair," magazine, quoted in Malcolm Cowley ed "Writers at Work," Viking 58"
R:	"Speech to American Horticultural Society; when challenged to use horticulture in a sentence; in "You Might as Well Live.""
A:	"Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy; in "While Rome Burns," "Our Mrs. Parker," by Alexander Woollcott, 1934."
N:	"Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final; In "You Might As Well Live," by John Keats, Pt. IV, Ch. 1, 1970."
K:	When told that she was very outspoken; attributed.