“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you, it’ll be with a knife”
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“I have been taking stock of my 50 years since leaving Wichita in 1922 at the age of 15 to become a dancer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything -- spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of “not trying”. I tried with all my heart.
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