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Quotes by Dominick Dunne

“Ive always felt I was shortchanged in the departments of height and physique.”

“I am so bummed out. I had gotten all excited about Catholicism again. I just loved all the people and ceremony of the last few weeks, all the hundreds of thousands in the square. I was out to lunch when I heard, Its the German. You could just feel everyone groan.”

“[So and so] is still alive?!”

“They are left out there with egg on their face.”

“She was a gallant soul. I knew her from way back because Gig Young was a good friend of mine. I always think of her sitting in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, holding court, saying hello to people, being funny.”

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.