• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    And one of the greatest wits of American history. She deserves to be up there with Twain.

    If nothing else, she should be remembered for all time for coming up with the phrase “what fresh hell is this?”

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      Dorothy Parker was once asked to use the word horticulture in a sentence. “You can lead a horticulture,” she replied, “but you can’t make her think.”

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      If nothing else, she should be remembered for all time for coming up with the phrase “what fresh hell is this?”

      Well there you go, I know nothing else about her and she’s already my new favourite person.