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When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

Dorothy Parker

Apology, Apologizing, Wells

Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

Dorothy Parker

Moon, Black, Gone

Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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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.

Dorothy Parker

Kissing, Favors, Bass

Dorothy Parker (1932). “Death and Taxes”

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Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

Dorothy Parker

Marriage, Office, Magazines

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

Dorothy Parker

Artist, Actors, Knows

Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

Dorothy Parker

Encouragement, Hollywood, Earth

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I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

Dorothy Parker

Falling In Love, Men, Dues

Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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

Dorothy Parker

Should, Parlor Games, Doubtful

Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?

Dorothy Parker

Dark, What If, World

Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

Dorothy Parker

Rolling, Three, Poor

Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

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

Dorothy Parker

Giving, Paws

Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

Dorothy Parker

New Yorker, 20 Oct. 1928

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How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parker

Beautiful, Sleep, Night

Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.197, Penguin

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[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

Dorothy Parker

Thinking, Annoyed, Actors

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[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

Dorothy Parker

Might, Hello, Window

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It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

Dorothy Parker

House, Firsts, Darling

New Yorker 20 Oct. 1928 (review by Dorothy Parker as "Constant Reader")

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Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.

Dorothy Parker

Dirty, Mean, Ivory

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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.

Dorothy Parker

God, First Love, Men

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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

Dorothy Parker

New York, Paris, Hopeful

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Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

Dorothy Parker

Hurt, Practice, League

Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.264, Penguin

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He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

Dorothy Parker

Lying, Woods, Cypresses

Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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

Dorothy Parker

Heart, Bigs, Cases

Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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

Dorothy Parker

Being Thankful, Sitting Down, World

Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.94, Penguin

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Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I doubt if this will get me much.

Dorothy Parker

Sweet, Eye, Heart

Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]

Dorothy Parker

Beautiful, Men, Wife

Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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Born: August 22, 1893
Died: June 7, 1967
Occupation: Poet
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