Dorothy Parker quote question

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I’d like to find authoritative sources for two quotes. Here’s the first:

“I prefer the company of younger men. Their stories are shorter.”

No idea where I got that one. It’s too right not to be real, but I can’t find a source yet. (That’s a job I’m giving ya’ll.)

The second quote I memorized instantly while reading a book, though I don’t remember which one.  (I’m guessing it was .) This is what Hughes said Parker wrote in a guest book at William Randolph Hearst‘s when the old man was still living with his consort, the actress :

“Upon my honor
I saw a madonna
standing in a niche,
above the door
of the private whore
of the world’s worst
son of a bitch”

Could be I’m wrong about that one too. Dunno. Sources and corrections, anyone?



5 responses to “Dorothy Parker quote question”

  1. @AdamHertz tweets, According to YogaMairika.com, she didn’t actually write it; as proof said she’d never rhyme honor and Madonna.

    Doesn’t give the first source, though.

  2. Google books search.

    (edited by DS so it works here)

  3. Also at Google books, the opposite version of #1, a man saying it about younger women.

    1. Thanks! That was written by Wyatt Cooper in 1968, the year after “Dottie” died. Wyatt was the fourth husband of Gloria Vanderbilt, and the father of Anderson Cooper and his late brother. Wyatt died ten years after this piece was published, during open heart surgery, at just 50.

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