“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”

—  Dorothy Parker

Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Source: While Rome Burns
Context: 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.

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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

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