Lee Radziwill Quotes
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I don't know where this myth that I go to a lot of parties stems from. It's a total myth. I may go out to something special once a year.
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There is something to be said for being older - and memories.
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As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.
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My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.
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Taste is an emotion.
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I never saw a play with my mother until I was 14, and then it was 'Hansel and Gretel.'
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I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.
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Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.
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I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.
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My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn't a patch on my sister. It wasn't much fun growing up with her and her almost irrational social climbing in that huge house of my dull stepfather Hughdie Auchincloss in Washington.
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My father, naturally, spoiled me when I was allowed to see him - flying to New York from Washington, alone, in those terrifying planes. He'd take me to Danny Kaye movies and rent a dog for me to walk in the park on Sunday - a different dog every Sunday - and then to have butterscotch sundaes with almonds at Schrafft's.
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I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.
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I am always aware that I've had a special and privileged life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has been for so many others.
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There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
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I've always wanted to be an actress. At school and in college, I did some things. But then I married, and then I had children, and then there were the political years.
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Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
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I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.
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If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional - and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.
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I find it hard to read people's minds, my own children's minds even harder. But it all worked out, and I was blessed with two wonderful children.
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Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.
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It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.
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I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.
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If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.
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Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.