“So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.”
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Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.”
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“Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.”
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“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
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