"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience."
"What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
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Source: Quoted in John Keats, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (1970)
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