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- From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
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- Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 12:15:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.212451.3094@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec31.020828.15210@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec31.020828.15210@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>, christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carl Christensen) writes:
- |> One of my favorite DP quotes was given as a challenge to use the word
- |> 'horticulture' in a sentence:
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- |> "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."
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- |> Also, I like this reply to her editor who was bugging her for
- |> her belated work while she was on her honeymoon:
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- |> "Too fucking busy, and vice versa."
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- |> These and twenty others (anecdotes really) can be found in 'The Little,
- |> Brown Book of Anecdotes', Clifton Fadiman editor.
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- |> Anybody have some other good quotes from Ms. Parker?
- |>
- |> Carl Christensen
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- umm - who is/was D.P.?
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