“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.”

—  Dorothy Parker

Source: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

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