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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

Dorothy Parker
Hurt, Attitude, Unnecessary
Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.264, Penguin

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

Dorothy Parker
Hurt, Practice, League
Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.264, Penguin

I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?

Dorothy Parker
Hurt, Lying, Book
Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.80, Penguin

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