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Quotes from The Dud Avocado — Elaine Dundy

1921–2008 United States

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8 quotes

I’d made a vow when I got over here never to speak to anyone I’d ever known before.

The Dud Avocado (1958)

There are, I know (it was in our philosophy course in college), at least a hundred different reasons why some particular event takes place.

The Dud Avocado (1958)

All at once I knew that I liked this place, too.

The Dud Avocado (1958)

It was a hot, peaceful, optimistic sort of day in September.

The Dud Avocado (1958)

Curiously enough I remembered exactly.

The Dud Avocado (1958)

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)

Attribution

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