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Quote by Dorothy Parker

“A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.”

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Dorothy Parker, an American poet, playwright, and critic, was born on August 22, 1893, and died on June 7, 1967. Known for her wit, satire, and humor, she is a prominent figure in 20th-century American literature. more

“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this.”

World Should Two Self Use Seems Grows This World Months Kings Garden Seeds Flesh Excellent Flats Resolve Weary Everlasting Gross Dew Slaughter Stale Two Months Canon Hamlet 2 Hamlet Theme

Author:William Shakespeare

“I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.”

Thinking Hate I Hate Clown

Author:Geraldine McCaughrean

“Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.”

People Two Lasts Sex Losing Fingers Spending Lust Touched Chocolate Cream Surviving Melting Borrowed Frenzy Raspberries

Author:Neil Gaiman

“She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe”

Stills Remember Felt Safe Calm Boat Ease

Book:The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel

Source: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel

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