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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.

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.

Approximate author period: c. 1930 AD · modern

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Dorothy Parker
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Approximate author period: c. 1930 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1893 to 1967; Wikidata Q270707, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270707 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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