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Elaine Dundy Quotes

1921–2008 United States

Elaine Dundy (1 August 1921 – 1 May 2008) was an American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress and playwright.

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What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise.

Elvis and Gladys (1985)

I wondered if it was his admission of what I’d done that he had not.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

I was crying for my dead self.

I stumbled across the Champs Élysées . I know it seems crazy to say, but before I actually stepped onto it (at what turned out to be the Étoile ) I had not even been aware of its existence.

The Dud Avocado (1958)

It was my present for being alive.

The Dud Avocado (1958)

Real, I thought … whatever that meant.

The Dud Avocado (1958)

From the Critic to the Author.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

In 1964 Ken and I got divorced.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elaine Dundy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.