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"I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion."
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Source: Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada
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