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

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Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.54, New York Review of Books

Elaine Dundy

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“Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss.”

Source : "Song: "Bright Lights" ("More Than You Think You Are")". 2002.
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“The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.”
“Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.”
“The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.”
“Even as a kid- do all kids think about this? I hope they don't, I hope my kids don't think about this- I was always thinking about, "Well, what are we doing? What is this all about?"”
“Sam doesn't hesitate for a minute. 'You say, "Mr and Mrs Tavish, you're making me feel inferior. Do you really think I'm inferior or is it just in my mind?”
“Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable.”

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