Sam Goldwyn said, "How'm I gonna do decent pictures when all my good writers are in jail?" Then he added, the infallible Goldwyn, "Don't misunderstand me, they all ought to be hung." Mr. Goldwyn didn't know about "hanged." That's all there is to say.
—Dorothy Parker, Interview in Writers at Work, 1958

Posted on August 6, 2002 at 8:47 PM

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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
—Dorothy Parker, Book review

Posted on March 17, 2003 at 4:46 PM

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That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say No in any of them.
—Dorothy Parker, Quoted in Alexander Woollcot, While Rome Burns

Posted on November 5, 2001 at 10:47 AM

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There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
—Dorothy Parker, Interview in Writers at Work