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The sharpest wit in the room

When Nora Ephron wrote about her early aspiration to be the only lady at the table, the sharpest wit in the room, she called this her “Dorothy Parker problem.” The problem was that many other young writers saw Dorothy Parker as their role model, too. “I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies — which I once thought of as totally unique — turn out to be clichés,” Ephron said, charmingly but disingenuously.

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