He hated so many people I hardly know anyone any more

Elaine Dundy

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I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training.

Elaine Dundy

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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.

Elaine Dundy

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That's the story of my life. Someone's behavior strikes me as a bit odd and the next thing I know all hell breaks loose.

Elaine Dundy

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No matter what you do you've got to try to do it well. Otherwise, it's unbearable.

Elaine Dundy

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What did I feel? Appalled. Astonished. Bewildered. I thought I was doing so well. I thought I was charming the hell out of him. I thought I had him eating out of my hand. Well: I thought I was getting away with it. I might have known. There is always a catch. But suddenly I felt very very young, like a child. Suddenly I wanted to run to - God knows whom, maybe God Himself - why is there never a face I can put to whom I want to run? - and cry, 'But I thought he liked me. All I want is to be liked.' And then, thank heaven, cold rage and fury.

Elaine Dundy

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Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and let it.

Elaine Dundy

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Besides, I hated him but I loved him too. Yes. I know all about that sort of thing. Christ, I should, I'd heard nothing else my last two years in New York. 'They have this terrific love-hate thing going,' everybody said about everybody else. 'You watch, it's going to destroy them-.' But never about me. When I took to someone I took to them, and when I took against them ditto. Mostly I felt indifference.

Elaine Dundy

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I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

Elaine Dundy

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I had nothing better to do, had I, except recount my money and repaint my finger-nails and die of frustration?

Elaine Dundy

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