One of her book reviews said, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.  It should be thrown with great force"
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Dorothy Parker - Wikiquote  Her "Constant Reader" book review of The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, in The New Yorker (20 ... One more drink and I'd have been under the host. ... "If the doorbell rang in her apartment, she would say, 'What fresh hell can this be?
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown ...  Mar 8, 2012 ... I bought my copy of her collected works the summer after ... a selection of Parker's book and theatre reviews from the New Yorker, including her verdict on AA ... Have one each, my dears, said cook in her comfortable voice.
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Dorothy Parker's Novel to be thrown with Great Force - Straight ...  In fact, her column is passed off in a side remark in one sentence. The book by Robert E. Drennan is The Algonquin Wits, which, as I said in the other ... And the review of The Cardinal's Mistress in the book Constant Reader...
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Missing Dorothy Parker Quote Still Missing - Straight Dope Message ...  Everybody knows Dorothy Parker said this. ... Most of the sources I've seen suggest the quote is from one of her book reviews in the New...
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This Is Not a Novel To Be Tossed Aside Lightly. It Should Be Thrown ...  Mar 26, 2013 ... Unfortunately, no one seems to know when this line was written or spoken. ... From a book review: It is not a book to be lightly thrown aside. ... In April 1928 Parker once again depicted a book as a projectile in her column in The New Yorker. ... Wish I'd Said That: Groucho Marx mentioned a new novel at the...
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Don't call me a spinster! | Life and style | The Guardian  May 31, 2014 ... For me to reach middle age, as I have at 47, and not to have married means there ... Fed up of the vitriol directed at single women, the author dismantles the ... Eckel writes of the many times when, like me, she has been called on to ... A simple game of word association is enough to hammer home the point.
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Judith Regan Drives Two Authors Bonkers - New York Observer  Nov 17, 1997 ... But all was not well between the authors and their editor. ... We must prevail on whoever at this publishing house might have some standards ... Ms. Markson at one point wrote Harper Collins' general counsel, James Fox, ... to let him know that Ms. Regan had canceled their book and to see if he might still...
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Proverbial Sayings And Traditions  DO NOT to others what you would not have others do to you. The ass complains ... Victuals prepared by many cooks will be neither hot nor cold. Truth lasts ... If thy friends agree in calling thee an ass, go and get a halter around thee. .... At another time he told him to bring something bad, and he also returned with a tongue.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and ...  Without these things, one tended to notice the bright eyelet curtains, the vase ... Inspired, she stood up and took the stack, then walked to the edge of the driveway. ...... a packet of gum, and some lint fall onto the Formica, but nothing that would ...... Perhaps because they were the very last words Cam had anticipated as a...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Mar 1, 2012 ... "Reader's Encyclopedia" says her favorite of her own novels was "The Song of the Lark", not "O' Pioneers". Reply . Report Abuse Judge it!
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Million Little Pieces --> Million Dog Pile-On - Straight Dope ...  She has sound bites of people tearing into him. .... Did Oprah explain her turn-around from what she said on Larry King? ..... it and made the book and its message a cause celeb, and he had little .... I'm not saying he's a con man, either. ..... stacks of [/i]A Million Little Pieces[/i] actually made me a slightly ill.
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Sep 19, 2010 ... Georges Clemenceau called this "much too important a matter to be left to the generals". Would this be War? Reply . Report Abuse Judge it!
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was 9/11 an inside job? - Bookshout  Special books, booklets, or book excerpts can also be created to fit your specific needs. .... environment of juvenile behavior, questionable content, personal attacks, and insults. ... My mottoIf it's not an act of God, it's a conspiracystill stands. ... Davy Crockett once said, Be always sure you're right and then go ahead.
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What's the last book you read? - Page 43 - unforumzed  When I read in the author's notes that a circus Elephant was .... before becoming a writer and her raw interest in organized thought and .... line "Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out of the bushes...". .... exception of The Waves) always tempers sentimentality with satire.
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She not only hosted the Tony Awards in 1992 - she won one for ...  Jul 8, 2016 ... To this macho novelist, she remarked Remarks are not literature ... This country star said she's not offended by dumb blonde jokes I know.
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The Hours by Michael Cunningham  Reviews, Discussion ...  Jeffrey said: We throw our parties; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our... ... Reading sometimes gave her a fresh source of inspiration. I wasn't sure ..... I gave the novel one star simply because Goodreads wouldn't let me give it zero! ..... This is Michael Cunningham's tribute to Virginia Woolf.
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Loganberry Books: Stump the Bookseller: GH  Of course, I don't recall the artist's name, which is why I am writing to you. ...... If I recall correctly, I think the girl may have become a fox in the end, but I'm not ever ... A good friend of mine had a book she loved growing up (this was in the 70s) ..... Jessamyn West, Leafy Rivers. ...... Her mother perhaps babysat for the 2nd girl.
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The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy  Reviews ...  The Company She Keeps has 470 ratings and 57 reviews. ... Lists with This Book ..... The novel is split into six vignettes telling the story of our heroine through the ..... until recently, all that I'd read of her had been The Group, back in junior high. ..... all about a young woman (I'm guessing based on the author) and her life in...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark  but not the date of the Battle of Flodden or the capital of Finland. All of the ... Edinburgh bookbinder. She had been ... "It lifts one up," Miss Brodie usually said, passing her hand outward from her .... One's prime is the moment one was born for. ..... was her natural setting and she had lost something of her quality when Sandy.
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A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Carl ...  A Woman in Charge has 2514 ratings and 223 reviews. ... This is a difficult book to review, because my feelings on how it was constructed are competing with...
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The Road Not Taken  The Road Not Taken, paving the way for women ... contemporary contributions which women have made, and are currently making, to society. ... Gwendolyn Brooks ... woman to hold the title of Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.