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If Twitter had existed while Emily Dickinson was alive, she would have been an absolute shitlord with millions of followers (lemmy.world)
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[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Dorothy Parker.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I would religiously follow Dorothy Parker

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 9 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Davel23@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oscar Wilde.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Darkaga@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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."

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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