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David Kalstone invited me to join him one summer in Venice- … David paid the rent and financed the major treats, such as dinner once a season at Harry’s Bar, and a day beside the Cipriani pool once every week or two. At the pool everyone was so old that Gore Vidal reputedly referred to it as Lourdes. It was there that Marguerite Littman …said to Tennessee Williams as they looked at a cadaverous girl shambling past in her bikini, “Look, anorexia nervosa!” To which Williams replied, “Oh Marguerite, you know everyone.
— Edmund White, City Boy, My life in New York during the 1960’s and ‘70s
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