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Elinor Glyn

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Quotes by Elinor Glyn

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Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm’s length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.
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I don’t know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.
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I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one’s veins, like grandmamma and me.
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Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I’m one of the animals in a cage.
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It’s that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With ‘IT’ you win all men if you are a woman–and all women if you are a man. ‘IT’ can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.
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Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, – infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.
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He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called, 'It
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To have "It", the fortunate possessor must have that strange magnetism which attracts both sexes. He or she must be entirely unselfconscious and full of self-confidence, indifferent to the effect he or she is producing, and uninfluenced by others. There must be physical attraction, but beauty is unnecessary.
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Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!
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Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.
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