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Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.
Mick Jagger
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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
T. S. Eliot
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Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.
Maureen Dowd
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There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.
Renata Adler
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A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.
Lin Yutang
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Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
John Podhoretz
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Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.
Jilly Cooper
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Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.
Phyllis McGinley