Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.
Dorothy ParkerYou do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
Dorothy ParkerNow that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.
Dorothy ParkerYou donโt want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I donโt want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
Dorothy Parker