Partial Comfort

Whose love is given over-well
Shall look on Helen's face in hell,
Whilst they whose love is thin and wise
May view John Knox in paradise.

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Of trying to talk to someone who kept interrupting:
"Like riding on the Long Island railroad - it gets you nowhere in particular."

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As far as I'm concerned, the most beautiful word in the English language is "cellar-door".

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Braggart

You will be frail and musty
With peering, furtive head,
While I am young and lusty
Among the roaring dead.

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Nickname for Alexander Woollcott's New York apartment:
"Wit's End."

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Of trying to talk to someone who kept interrupting:
"Like riding on the Long Island railroad - it gets you nowhere in particular."

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Summary

Every love's the love before
In a duller dress.
That's the measure of my lore -
Here's my bitterness:
Would I knew a little more,
Or very much less!

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People ought to be one of two things, young or old. No - what's the use of fooling? People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

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drawing of two men riding the subway, visibly bruised/battered and handcuffed to each other. parker (left) is a man with tan skin/dark hair slicked back, wearing a black sweater (bought at a corner store to cover up the damage) over his bloodied white dress shirt. he has a black eye, frowning at the cuffed hands. frank (right) is a man with darker tan skin/short black hair/stubble/scars across the left side of his face. he has blood on his forehead/a bandage over his nose, (got his nose broken. again) wearing a bloodied white turtleneck and a black leather jacket.

two panel comic of frank/parker vs an old woman with her purse dog. panel one: woman pointing angrily at the disabled sign over the seats parker/frank are taking up. she says "SHAME on you big boys taking up that space! Now, I need a seat for Fifi and I--right this instant!" frank is covering parker's mouth with a stoic face, saying "Yes'm." panel 2: the old woman in a seat that frank gave up, who is now standing. parker, still sitting, looks dumbfounded, his cuffed hand held up to frank's holding the rail.

obligatory metro scene

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Paying her last respects to Scott Fitzgerald as eh lay in an undertaker's parlor in Los Angeles, and quoting the words of a mourner at the funer of Jay Gatsby:
"The poor son-of-a-bitch!"

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Experience

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

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Of the Yale prom:
"If all those sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."

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To a woman wearing a cape trimmed with monkey fur:
"Really? I thought they were beards."

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Mortal Enemy

Let another cross his way
She's the one will do the weeping!
Little need I fear he'll stray
Since I have his heart in keeping.

Let another hail him dear -
Little chance that he'll forget me!
Only need I curse and fear
Her he loved before he met me.

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Isn't it a bit presumptuous of us to be alive now that Mr. Benchley is dead?

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The Small Hours

No more my little song comes back;
And now of nights I lay
My head on down, to watch the black
And wait the unfailing gray.
Oh, sad are winter nights, and slow;
And sad's a song that's dumb;
And sad it is to lie and know
Another dawn will come.

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Did I enjoy the party? One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

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Of her supersophisticated New York days:
We were gallant, hardriding and careless of life. We were little black eyes that had gone astray... A sort of Ladies' Auxiliary of the Legion of the Damned.

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Lips that taste of tears are the best for kissing.

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It's not the tragedies that trick us. It's the messes. I can't stand messes.

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On seeing a worn-out toothbrush in their hostess's bathroom:
Fellow guest: "Whatever do you think she does with that?"
DP: "I think she rides it on Halloween."

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Partial Comfort

Whose love is given over-well
Shall look on Helen's face in hell,
Whilst they whose love is thin and wise
May view John Knox in paradise.

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After spending some time in the company of a handsome sun-burnt young film star in Hollywood:
"Ah yes. His is the hue of availability."

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Telegram to an actress who finally had her baby after many carefully contrived appearances during her long pregnancy:
"GOOD WORK. WE ALL KNEW YOU HAD IT IN YOU."

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Oscar Wilde

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.

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Introducing her first husband:
"I want you to meet my little husband."

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On writing for films:
"I don't believe the films have anything to do with writing except in a crossword puzzle kind of way. Writing a script is drawing together a lot of ends which can be worked into a moving picture."

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When asked by a woman sitting next to her at a first night, "Are you Dorothy Parker?"
"Yes, do you mind?"

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On being told that someone wouldn't hurt a fly:
"Not if it was buttoned up."

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