Elaine Dundy - The Dud Avocado (1958)

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What's the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it's over.

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I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

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The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we're all going to live forever!

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I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

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The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

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It was one of those nights when the air is blood-temperature and it's impossible to tell where you leave off and it begins.

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Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

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I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

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I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

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A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

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That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

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I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.

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

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