Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (AmazonClassics Edition)
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Read between February 21 - March 9, 2024
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if I took a pencil and a paper and put down all of my thoughts it would make a book.
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I would like to be besides an authoress is a cinema star and I was doing quite well in the cinema when Mr. Eisman made me give it all up.
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Well I forgot to mention that the English gentleman who writes novels seems to have taken quite an interest in me, as soon as he found out that I was literary. I mean he has called up every day and I went to tea twice with him. So he has sent me a whole complete set of books for my birthday by a gentleman called Mr. Conrad.
Maya
I wish
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said he never dreamed a girl could go through so much as I, and come out so sweet and not made bitter by it all.
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that I do not mind a riskay story as long as it is really funny. I mean I have a great sense of humor.
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he never realized I was so beautiful. And he said that there was only one in all the world and that was me.
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will send me books to read so that I will not get lonesome there.
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and if I don’t really have something definite to put my mind on soon I will scream.
Maya
10/10 writing
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And Dorothy says that when we get to London nearly everybody speaks English anyway.
Maya
HA
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I always love the ocean. I mean I always love a ship and I really love the Majestic because you would not know it was a ship
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and did nothing but cry and send the steward for some champagne to cheer me up.
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because it wastes quite a lot of time telling you what to call a Lord and all the Lords I have met have told me what to call them and it is generally some quite cute name like Coocoo whose real name is really Lord Cooksleigh. So I will not waste my time on such a book.
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So I was so upset I said good-bye to Mr. Mountginz and I started to rush right down to my room and cry.
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less anybody says about his dancing the better.
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I do not see why the Captain does not ask Mr. Cartier to have a jewelry store on the ship as it is really not much fun to go shopping on a ship with gentlemen, and buy nothing but imitations of dogs.
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she really does not love nature but always wastes her time and ruins her clothes even though I always tell her not to drink champagne out of a bottle on the deck of the ship as it lurches quite a lot.
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Major Falcon knows all the sights in London including the Prince of Wales so it really looks like Dorothy and I would have quite a delightful time in London.
Maya
I love this soo much
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I mean Fanny is almost historical, because when a girl is cute for 50 years it really begins to get historical.
Maya
HAHA
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I bought some quite cute hats as childrens hats only cost half as much
Maya
REAL
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I had almost one of everything until I saw a diamond tiara.