Patricia Marx quotes
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“Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.”
-- Patricia MarxSource : "Patricia Marx Tells A Tale Of Sweet, Unbalanced Love". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2011.
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“Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.”
-- Patricia MarxSource : "Gifts for Him" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2007.
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“I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.”
-- Patricia MarxSource : "You're Welcome" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. April 16, 2012.
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“The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.”
-- Patricia MarxSource : "Buy Shanghai!" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.
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“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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“For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.”
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“New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.”
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“Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.”
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“Mothers know the difference between a broth and a consommé. And the difference between damask and chintz. And the difference between vinyl and Naugahyde. And the difference between a house and a home. And the difference between a romantic and a stalker. And the difference between a rock and a hard place.”
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“Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.”
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“What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.”
-- Patricia MarxSource : Patricia Marx (1985). “You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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“New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.”
-- Patricia MarxSource : "Buy Shanghai! A city for sale" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.
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“Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy,”
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“But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.”
-- Patricia MarxSource : Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.173, Simon and Schuster
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“There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.”
-- Patricia MarxSource : Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.101, Simon and Schuster
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“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.”
-- Patricia MarxSource : Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
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“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.”
-- Patricia MarxSource : Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
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