Dorothy Parker's "If Only"s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMnv1XNpuwM

“Dorothy Parker was too smart to buy the legend and too clearheaded to slide into nostalgia. That left her having to acknowledge some bitter realities…. The tragedy of Dorothy Parker, it seems to me, isn’t that she succumbed to alcoholism or died essentially alone. It was that she was too intelligent to believe that she had made the most of herself.”
 — If you cannot read enough of or about Dorothy Parker you will want to add this to your list.