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The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy’s Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking.... read more
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“I've never wanted to meet anyone I've been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.”
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It’s amazing how right you can sometimes be about a person you don’t know; it’s only the people you do know who confuse you.
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I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
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Frequently, walking down the streets in Paris alone, I’ve suddenly come upon myself in a store window grinning foolishly away at the thought that no one in the world knew where I was at just that moment.
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“Make voyages. Attempt them. That’s all there is.” —TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (Camino Real)
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A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.
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What was the use of remembering? If it was unpleasant, it was unpleasant. If it was pleasant, it was over.
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I was experiencing that terrifying thing of suddenly seeing someone you know terribly well as if for the first time.
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The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?
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I hate plans. Hate even listening to people telling me about theirs. Plans spoil suspense, I say. Don’t believe in looking where I’m going.
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It was one of those nights when the air is blood-temperature and it’s impossible to tell where you leave off and it begins.
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It was a hot, peaceful, optimistic sort of day in September.
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- Elaine Dundy (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Company
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1958
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 255
Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Company
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1958
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 255
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- Dewey: 813.54
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