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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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House, Endlessly, Almost, Stepfather

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

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Important, Found, Most, Self-Reliant

Decorating has always been my hobby.

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Hobby, Always, Been, Decorating

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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Epitome, Admired, Enviable, Turner

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

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Brother-In-Law, Things, Were, President

There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.

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Louvre, McDonald

When I look back on my life, it seems nearly everything of interest happened in little more than one decade - dramas, tragedies, major events, pleasures, my close friendships with artists and political figures, the lovely places where I lived in England and New York, the trips to Europe, visits at the White House.

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My Life, Decade, Figures, Dramas

I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.

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People, Like, Andre, Francis

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

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Help, How, Bit, Melancholy

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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Year, May, Stems, Something Special

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

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Wedding, Me, Come, Onassis

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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Father, Terrifying, Allowed, Danny

When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge... I didn't get very far... It's rather difficult to run away in your mother's high heels.

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Away, Rather, Very, Ran

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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My Life, Through, Bernard, Succumbed

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 Think, Rooms, Bizarre, Exotic

Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.

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Words, Paris, Reasons, Banal

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

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Mind, Number, Finally, 50-50

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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Learn, Difficult, Raised, Feelings

I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.

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Thought, Give, Warhol, None

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

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Memories, Happy, Times, I Believe

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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Bed, Ideal, Persons, Evening

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

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Think, I Think, Rooms, Structure

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.

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Love, Think, Everybody, Grieving

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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Own, My Own, Read, Harder

When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.

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Forever, Buy, Keeping, Intention

I'm obviously all for women's lib.

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Women, Obviously, Lib

I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It's very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.

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New Things, New, Very, Nice Things

New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.

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New, Making, Eternal Youth, New Yorkers

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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Lost, Desire, Very, Peaceful

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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Reason, Pleasure, Other, Gives

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