I'm a bot that posts random quotes from Dorothy Parker, once an hour. Fan account only. Written & run by @eccentric.ity.org #DorothyParkerhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvl2xi2htj27 Time doth flit, Oh shit! #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvl2xi2htj27https://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvkxm6vtip2k Never trust a round garter or a Wall Street man. #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkxm6vtip2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvkuavgwv72n Of trying to talk to someone who kept interrupting: "Like riding on the Long Island railroad - it gets you nowhere in particular." #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkuavgwv72nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvkqvmi5qb2k Words of Comfort to be Scratched on a Mirror Helen of Troy had a wandering glance; Sappho's restriction was only the sky; Ninon was ever the chatter of France; But oh, what a good girl am I! #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkqvmi5qb2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvknkddfg62y Nickname for Alexander Woollcott's New York apartment: "Wit's End." #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 12:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvknkddfg62yhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvkk6zgcum2z Braggart You will be frail and musty With peering, furtive head, While I am young and lusty Among the roaring dead. #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkk6zgcum2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvkgtr2ps42u Of her job at Vanity Fair: "My boss is an idiot, and the rest of the staff is four young men who go to pieces easily. Even when they're in the best of health, you have to stand on their insteps to keep them from flying away." #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkgtr2ps42uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvkdihgby42y Rhyme Against Living If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide; If cool my heart and high my head, I think, "How lucky are the dead!" #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkdihgby42yhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvka5642n52wGeneral Review of the Sex Situation 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? #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 08:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvka5642n52whttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvk4rv4rsr2z Isn't it a bit presumptuous of us to be alive now that Mr. Benchley is dead? #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 07:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvk4rv4rsr2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvjzglw7jz2n Of her pet dog's mange: "I suppose he got it from a lamp-post." #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 06:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjzglw7jz2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvjw3cg33g27 Hazel Morse was a large, fair woman of the type that incites some men when they use the word "blonde" to click their tongues and wag their heads roguishly. #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 05:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjw3cg33g27https://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvjspzhfzt2k Words of Comfort to be Scratched on a Mirror Helen of Troy had a wandering glance; Sappho's restriction was only the sky; Ninon was ever the chatter of France; But oh, what a good girl am I! #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 04:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjspzhfzt2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvjpeq3zal2w Of a performance by Katherine Hepburn: "She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B." #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 03:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjpeq3zal2whttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvjlzgq5x525 Introducing her first husband: "I want you to meet my little husband." #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 02:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjlzgq5x525https://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvjio5mnh72n Comment 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 Roumania. #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 01:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjio5mnh72nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvjfcutdn32u Godspeed Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go rake your damned tomorrow! #DorothyParker #Parker 15 Sep 2026 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjfcutdn32uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvjbxl72yn2k You know, that woman speaks eighteen languages. And she can't say "No" in any of them. #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 23:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjbxl72yn2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvj6mbxfla25 John Huston is doing something called, very simply, The Bible. Now you must admit that's a big job. I think he's going to stop with Moses because he can't stand another moment - he is playing Moses, you see. #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 22:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvj6mbxfla25https://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvixvpqyoi2y Nickname for Alexander Woollcott's New York apartment: "Wit's End." #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvixvpqyoi2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mviukggzeu2z Asked if she knew Hemmingway's age: "All writers are either 29 or Thomas Hardy." #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 19:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mviukggzeu2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvintttpef2n Name for a pet parrot: "Onan" (because he spilled his seed on the bottom of his cage.) #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvintttpef2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvikiklyoz2y On being told that someone wouldn't hurt a fly: "Not if it was buttoned up." #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvikiklyoz2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvih5ben7g2h 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." #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvih5ben7g2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvidrya6vi2k 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. #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvidrya6vi2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mviagosj5u23 To a friend who asked her if she liked her hair: "Lovely. I can't wait for mine to go gray so I can have it made blue." #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mviagosj5u23https://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvi53fjm7o2g It's not the tragedies that trick us. It's the messes. I can't stand messes. #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 12:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvi53fjm7o2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvhzq4ne2u2n Name of her poodle: "Cliche." #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhzq4ne2u2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvhwet7rfg2k Sure, you make Money writing on the coast, and God knows you earn it, but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand. #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhwet7rfg2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dorothyparker-bot.bsky.social/post/3mvhszk2cg527 When asked by a woman sitting next to her at a first night, "Are you Dorothy Parker?" "Yes, do you mind?" #DorothyParker #Parker 14 Sep 2026 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:qets62s2li5thxhhmbknbpg3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhszk2cg527