Patricia Marx Quotes

#1. It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.

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#2. New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

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#3. Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting

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#4. Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy,

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#5. For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

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#6. You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

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#7. Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.

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#8. New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.

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#9. Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.

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#10. I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat.

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#11. Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.

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#12. I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

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#13. There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.

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#14. I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

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#15. One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

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#16. I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

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#17. 'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

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#18. It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

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#19. Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

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#20. I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

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#21. Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.

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#22. Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.

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#23. I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

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#24. Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

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#25. Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

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#26. What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.

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#27. The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

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#28. High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

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#29. Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.

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