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All Quotes by author - Lee Radziwill

" 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. "

" Decorating has always been my hobby. "

" Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind. "

" I always begin a room with the rug; it is literally the foundation of the space. I then go on to the furniture. "

" I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times. "

" I don't like dining rooms. I think they have too much structure and are too formal. "

" I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer. "

" I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it. "

" 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. "

" I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored. "

" I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life. "

" It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly. "

" I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. "

" 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. "

" Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship. "

" My childhood taught me nothing... zero. "

" 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. "

" No, I never did hats. I didn't - never felt they were so becoming to me. "

" Onassis told me. He begged me to come to the wedding. "

" One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically. "

" Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes. "

" Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists. "

" There is something to be said for being older - and memories. "

" There's a McDonald's in the Louvre. "

" There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president. "

" When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.' "

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