I'm a real phony, one of those half-baked hot-house plants we're growing nowadays, instead of the honest-to-God two-fisted women we should be...
Elaine DundyAs a matter of fact I'd had my hair dyed a marvelous shade of pale red so popular with Parisian tarts that season.
Elaine DundyStichwörter: pink hair-dye pink-hair
The shabbier the snobbier.
Elaine DundyStichwörter: snobbery
You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.
Elaine DundyStichwörter: gossip
But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself.
Elaine DundyStichwörter: observation
The sensation of being so close to another human being with whom I had not one single sensation in common left me speechless.
Elaine DundyIt's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one.
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He looked so—what was it that gave him his irresistible charm? He looked so accessible. That was it. A great simple truth struck me with surprise: charm is availability.
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