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“Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?”

Dorothy Parker

“Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.”

Dorothy Parker

“If I had a shiny gun
I could have a world of fun
Speeding bullets through the brains
Of the folks that cause me pains :)”

Dorothy Parker

“Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.”

Dorothy Parker

"New York at 6:30 P.M.", Esquire (November 1964)
Context: There is no such hour on the present clock as 6:30, New York time. Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

“Living well is the best revenge.”

Dorothy Parker

“Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that cleans up the matter.”

Dorothy Parker

Source: Enough Rope

“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”

Dorothy Parker

16 August 1925
Source: Enough Rope (1926)

“Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?”

Dorothy Parker

“Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.”

Dorothy Parker

“If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.”

Dorothy Parker

[Magazine, June 2, 1927]
Sunset Gun (1927)

“I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.”

Dorothy Parker

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.”

Dorothy Parker

Interview, The Paris Review (Summer 1956)
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Be you wise and never sad,
You will get your lovely lad.
Never serious be, nor true,
And your wish will come to you--
And if that makes you happy, kid,
You'll be the first it ever did.”

Dorothy Parker

“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”

Dorothy Parker

Source: The Ladies of the Corridor

“Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.”

Dorothy Parker

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker