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The classic Dorothy Parker insults

Dorothy Parker turned the putdown into high art. Here’s a handpicked anthology of the essential Dorothy Parker insults. Book reviews Dorothy Parker’s Constant Reader column in The New Yorker sparked some of her most famous insults. Reviewing Margot Asquith’s Lay Sermons:“The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest […]

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