When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.
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Taste is an emotion.
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There is something to be said for being older - and memories.
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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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The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.
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There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
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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 like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.
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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.