Of the Volney Hotel in New York, where she had an apartment:
"The kind of hotel where businessmen install their mothers and then run."
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Oh, I said it all right. You know how it is. A joke. When people expect you to say things, you say things. Isn't that the way it is?
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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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Horsie
All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as it it were all right.
You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?"
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