Dorothy Parker on Writing
Parker was well known as a writer, especially for The New Yorker, but also as one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table.
Quotation
Build the Wall
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.” –President Thomas Jefferson, January 1802
Fortune Knocks
Related: “Some Blockett-type employees actually believe that they have received a genuine promotion; others recognize the truth.