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Dorothy Parker: And there was...

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And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

Source: On lady novelists; Interview in Writers at Work (First Series, ed. by Malcolm Cowley, 1958).
-- Dorothy Parker, (Aug 22 1893-1967), US author, poet, journalist, humorist; She was the celebrated caustic wit of the 1920s; wrote Enough Rope, 1926 and The Little Hours, 1944.


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