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“This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.”

“If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.”

“Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.”

“Once, when I was young and true.
Someone left me sad -
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.”

Variant: A Very Short Song

Once, when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.
Source: Enough Rope

“There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.”

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme --
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.”

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“It costs me never a stab nor squirm

To tread by chance upon a worm.

"Aha, my little dear," I say,

"Your clan will pay me back some day."”

First printed in New Yorker, (9 April 1927) p. 31
Sunset Gun (1927)

“Ah, clear they see and true they say
That one shall weep, and one shall stray”

“They say of me, and so they should,
It's doubtful if I come to good.”

“She can sit up and beg, and
she can give her paw —
I don't say she will, but she can.”

“Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them”

“Hold your pen and spare your voice.”

“Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.”

Source: The Collected Dorothy Parker

“How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack.”

“For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels…. And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.”

“I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets…. you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.”

“I'm of the glamorous ladies
At whose beckoning history shook.
But you are a man, and see only my pan,
So I stay at home with a book.”

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat
My dress is 1922…
My life is all like that.”

“tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!”

Source: The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker

“I can’t write five words but that I change seven.”