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Tennyson was somewhat out of date, by English standards — Oscar Wilde was in the ascendant then, at least among the younger set — but then, everything in Port Ticonderoga was somewhat out of date.† (source)
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When Oscar Wilde has one character in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) say of another, recently widowed, that "her hair has gone quite gold from grief," the statement works because our expectation is that stress turns people's hair white.† (source)
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Like any book about mistakes and redemption (Oscar Wilde's De Profundis is my favorite), the mistakes are far more interesting to read about (and write about)—so I'll start with where I think I went around the bend.† (source)
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary.—OSCAR WILDE† (source)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde.† (source)
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As Oscar Wilde once said, 'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune.† (source)
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Postcards of authors are taped to the wall over her desk, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf.† (source)
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So tell me about Oscar Wilde.† (source)
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Underneath is a collection of Wordsworth poems, a Bible, and a book of plays by Oscar Wilde.† (source)
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—Oscar Wilde (1854—1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, and poet† (source)
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As a consolation, Juvenal Urbino and Fermina Daza brought back the shared memory of a snowy afternoon when they were intrigued by a crowd that defied the storm outside a small bookshop on the Boulevard des Capucines because Oscar Wilde was inside.† (source)
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I sit on something hard—a book, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.† (source)
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At Pollsmoor I first understood the truth of Oscar Wilde's haunting line about the tent of blue that prisoners call the sky.† (source)
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As in Oscar Wilde.† (source)
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Oscar Wilde's "Reading Gaol" has the dope twisted.† (source)
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The late Oscar Wilde, for instance.† (source)
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