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And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all surprised.

— Dorothy Parker Our Mrs Parker (1934)

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There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.

Enough Rope (1926)

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.

Our Mrs Parker (1934)

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