"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience."
"The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?"
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Source: Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.143, Penguin
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