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“If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.”

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Josephine Tey was a British detective novel author known for her intricate plots and psychological insights. Her works combined literary quality with detective elements, profoundly influencing the genre of detective fiction. more

“The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity; the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.”

Thinking Done Beautiful Used Term Liberty Boys Gone Effects Dangerous Letters Add Dialogue Clarity Narrative Shock Flats Ruling Vigor Hog Tedium

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.”

Book Ends Force Numbers Gone Blame Coming Out Flash Flood Flash Floods

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.”

Ifs Way Stories Animal Very Good Analogies Anecdotes

Book:A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

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“For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.”

Mind Believe Minutes Shots Cute

Author:Dorothy Parker

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