Rhyme Against Living

If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide;
If cool my heart and high my head,
I think, "How lucky are the dead!"

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Women who live alone in small residential hotels throughout the United States have plenty of money and plenty of time: their only occupation is to spend one and kill the other.

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Cherry White

I never see that prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with spring -
But but what I think, "How gay 'twould be
To hang me from a flowering tree."

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Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.

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Oscar Wilde

If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.

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Of the Yale prom:
"If all those sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."

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Thought For a Sunshiny Morning

It costs me never a stab or squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
"Aha, my little dear," I say,
"Your clan will pay me back one day."

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Of a mongrel:
"All too obviously, it was the living souvenir of a mother who had never been able to say no."

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Godspeed

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday,
Go rake your damned tomorrow!

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Telegram to an actress who finally had her baby after many carefully contrived appearances during her long pregnancy:
"GOOD WORK. WE ALL KNEW YOU HAD IT IN YOU."

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On being told that someone wouldn't hurt a fly:
"Not if it was buttoned up."

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Telegram to an actress who finally had her baby after many carefully contrived appearances during her long pregnancy:
"GOOD WORK. WE ALL KNEW YOU HAD IT IN YOU."

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To a supercilious youth who said he "simply couldn't bear fools":
"How odd. Your mother could apparently."

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Of trying to talk to someone who kept interrupting:
"Like riding on the Long Island railroad - it gets you nowhere in particular."

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Asked if she knew Hemmingway's age:
"All writers are either 29 or Thomas Hardy."

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To the suggestion that she might start on her autobiography:
I'd never be able to do it, but I wish to God I could! I'd like to write the damned thing, just so I could call it Mongrel!"

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