Patricia Marx
Patricia Marx
Patricia Marx is an American humorist and writer. She currently works as a staff writer for The New Yorker, and teaches at Princeton University and 92nd Street Y...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
brevity buy extra false paper towels
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
blessed dazzle buoys
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.
fall intellectual gusto
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.
trouble bigs
There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.
stupid coffee land
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.
pretty-woman comedy decided
Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy,
new-york sleep cities
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
giving shelves
What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.
christmas people cards
Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.
mother home rocks
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.
waiting bombs nuclear
Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.
new-york cuisine culture
New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
sometimes journalist i-can
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
practice surfing stranger
Couch surfing refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.