Patricia Marx Quotes

A collection of quotes by Patricia Marx.

Patricia Marx is an American humorist, writer, and television writer. She has worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1989 and has contributed numerous humorous articles. Marx has also written books including "Him Her Him Again The End of Him" and "Let's Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties". She has received accolades for her work, including the 2009 Thurber Prize for American Humor for her book "Starting from Happy".

If only, I thought, I could talk to Eugene just one more tim

If only, I thought, I could talk to Eugene just one more time. This was before I came to understand that you cannot make someone fall in love with you But here's what you can do. By arguing and pleading and screaming and crying and throwing plates and phoning a lot and bringing hot food and sending flowers and buying gifts and doing unsolicited favors and remembering a birthday and being nice and declaring your abiding love and trying hard or sometimes merely by being present, you can make someone who was hitherto lukewarm really detest you.

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