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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.

— Elaine Dundy Elvis and Gladys (1985)

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Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive — and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

Elvis and Gladys (1985)

And eventually we will make sense of it.

A Stranger Comes to Town (2001)

I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter.

A Stranger Comes to Town (2001)

I kept crying, knowing that I would never go back to seeing what I used to see.

Then after his death in London in taxis, on radio and TV I heard nothing but Elvis records and that grabbed my attention.

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