"I canâ€™t write five words but that I change seven."

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Dorothy Parker

#Writing Quotes #Seven Quotes

“So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.”
“I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression at the multitude of loss. My husband, I thought, was going to leave me. I was cut off from this mentor and someone I cared for very much, David Petraeus, who also did nothing to stand up for me and in fact, empowered his surrogates to throw me under the bus, and that was devastating.”

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“If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.”
“Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.”
“I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
“We think too much and feel too little.”
“Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.”
“The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.”

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