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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother."

"The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them."
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"We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust."

"My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up."

"For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio."

"The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings."

"I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came."

"In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening."

"When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term."
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