"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience."
"[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn."
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Source: Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by Constant Reader”
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