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"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." -
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Dorothy Parker
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Top 5 quotes from Dorothy Parker
"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires."
"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised."
"This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
"They sicken of the calm who know the storm."
Top 5 quotes from Reading, Writing
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
"Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about 'a' man."
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."
"If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."
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