61 Quotes by Elaine Dundy

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

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

"It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you."

"It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one."

"At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researching the greatest celebrity of them all, I would at last be meeting real people, finding them more extraordinary than celebrities; fascinated by them all and enjoying enduring friendships with some."

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

"To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror."

"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."

"I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror."

"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."