A feather quill hovers over a blank unrolled scroll beside books, an inkwell, dried stems and a candle.

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Dorothy Parker

It costs me never a stab or squirm

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The fragment says something causes neither a stab nor a squirm. The object of that reaction is missing, so the speaker’s apparent ease cannot be assigned to a particular situation.

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