"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks."

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Source : Attributed to Dorothy Parker after her death in Robert E. Drennan "The Algonquin Wits" (p. 124), 1968.

Dorothy Parker

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“I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.”
“That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.”
“We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.”
“IÂ think love and friends are two things that you donâ€™t chase. True love and true friends come,”
“I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.”
“The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.”
“Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.”
“Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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