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“Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.”

“All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.”

“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.”

“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday,
Go take your damned tomorrow!”

“I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think, "How gay 'twould be
To hang me from a flowering tree.”

Source: Not So Deep As A Well: Collected Poems

“Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.”

“It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.”

“Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.”

Source: Men, Women And Dogs

“The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!”

Source: Enough Rope

“The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”

“Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.”

“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“I'll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he'll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.”

“Trapped like a trap in a trap”

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”

New Yorker (4 February 1928)

“Never complain, never explain.”

“Excuse my dust.”

Her proposed epitaph for herself, quoted in Vanity Fair (June 1925)

“Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.”

Source: The Collected Dorothy Parker