61 Quotes by Elaine Dundy

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

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

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

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.