"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience."
"There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it."
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Source: Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin
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