“It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.”

"City Vignettes, I: Dawn"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

Source: Soon I Will Be Invincible (2007), Ch. 1: Foiled Again

I lived my life and did what I had to do.”
Aleph (2011)

Sylvia cartoon strip

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

"Skanks for the Memories"

Letter (21 February 1952); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Context: I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F. B. I.-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school.... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

Variant: What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

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