I’d rather have

January 18, 2021August 23, 2018 by PG

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I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

~ Dorothy Parker

James Scott Bell

August 24, 2018 at 8:06 AM

Much as I love Dorothy Parker, there’s no evidence she came up with this. It may have been (and it wouldn’t surprise me) the great Steve Allen.

Tom Waits quoted it on a TV show once and claimed he saw it on a bathroom wall!

https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/id_rather_have_a_bottle_in_front_of_me_than_a_frontal_lobotomy/
- antares
  
  August 24, 2018 at 8:00 PM
  
  I first heard it from Tom Waits on Fernwood Tonight.
Anonymous

August 23, 2018 at 11:20 AM

I can relate – and it’s not even Friday yet … 😉

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