"To quote the only line of Gertrude Stein's which I have ever been able to understand, “It is wonderful how I am not interested.” p. 64"
About Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was an American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction. Based in New York, she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
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