“I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can…” — Dorothy Parker

“I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have the money.”

Treating literary ambition and financial comfort with characteristic self-mockery · Interview, The Paris Review, 1956

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About Dorothy Parker

22 August 1893–7 June 1967

Dorothy Parker, born Dorothy Rothschild on 22 August 1893 and dead on 7 June 1967, became one of the most recognizable voices of twentieth-century American letters: a poet of compressed heartbreak, a theater and book critic of dangerous precision, a short-story writer of unusual psychological acuity, a screenwriter…

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