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Quote by Dorothy Parker

“He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.”

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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

“Susan was a tough-minded romantic. She wanted to fall in love with a book. She always had reasons for her devotions, as an astute reader would, but she was, to her credit, probably the most emotional one among us. Susan could fall in love with a book in more or less the way one falls in love with a person. Yes, you can provide, if asked, a list of your loved one’s lovable qualities: he’s kind and funny and smart and generous and he knows the names of trees. But he’s also more than amalgamation of qualities. You love him, the entirety of him, which can’t be wholly explained by even the most exhaustive explication of his virtues. And you love him no less for his failings. O.K., he’s bad with money, he can be moody sometimes, and he snores. His marvels so outshine the little complaints as to render them ridiculous.”

Readers New Yorker

Author:Michael Cunningham

“The paranoid, real or pretended, always secretes its pearl around a grain of fact.”

Crucible New Yorker Red Scare

Author:Arthur Miller

“It required an enormous amount of energy and time just to do errands like getting groceries. She was always sweaty after she got groceries.”

City Life New Yorker

Book:Everybody Rise

Source: Everybody Rise

“The older I get the more grateful I am not to be told how everything comes out.”

Vejez New Yorker

Author:Mavis Gallant

“My friend Doris Bry says now that I’ve ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.”

Interview New Yorker 1974

Book:O'Keeffe

Source: O'Keeffe

“Frieda was very special,” O’Keeffe recalls. “I can remember very clearly the first time I ever saw her, standing in a doorway, with her hair all frizzed out, wearing a cheap red calico dress that looked as though she’d just wiped out the frying pan with it. She was not thin, and not young, but there was something radiant and wonderful about her.”

Interview New Yorker 1974

Book:O'Keeffe

Source: O'Keeffe

“If we accept the unacceptable today, what's the outlook for tomorrow going to be?”

Humor New Yorker

Author:George Booth

“I come by my alarmism honestly. I have learned this custom over the years as I have settled into being a true New Yorker. This is how we welcome foreigners to our shores. Because we are so often frightened by living here, we are annoyed and offended when visitors fail to show the proper signs of terror. So we try to scare the living daylights out of them.”

Fear Irony Xenophobia New Yorker

Book:Fraud

Source: Fraud

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