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Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church, or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

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People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

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To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

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I hate cocktail parties. They're for people who're not good enough to invite for dinner—then they stay to dinner.

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Elsa Maxwell

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Born: May 24, 1883
Died: November 1, 1963 (aged 80)
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