August 22, 1893 –
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker was born in New York City, to Henry and Eliza Rothschild (… My God, no, dear! We’d never even heard of those Rothschilds ….) on this date.
Her birth was two months premature, allowing her to say that it was the last time she was early for anything. She was quoted, when discussing her early years, “All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn’t sit in the same room with me.”
While she was a successful writer, she was just plain lousy at committing suicide. Dorothy Parker attempted suicide four times herself before succumbing to a heart attack in 1967.
And so it goes
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