If Twitter had existed while Emily Dickinson was alive, she would have been an absolute shitlord with millions of followers

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• vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dorothy Parker.

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  • charlytune@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dorothy Parker would have drunk tweeted from dinner parties savagely taking down all the other guests.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would religiously follow Dorothy Parker

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• Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  H. L. Mencken. “For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong.”

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  • Darkaga@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not too be too pedantic but this is the full, accurate quote from Prejudices: Second Series, "Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong."

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    • Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dude! I’ve been using that for years, never thought I had the quote wrong! Thank you!

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    • Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gotta ask - which book is your favorite? Love the Chrestromathy and the books he wrote about his youth.

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• Davel23@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oscar Wilde.

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  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean with a surname like Wilde he was destined to be a wild one.

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• OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Bronte sisters would be my Kardashian’s, oh my God

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