Marlene Dietrich's ABC

When you stand in the wind you are acutely aware of being alive.

WEST, MAE

A milestone, a catchword, sex with its tongue in its cheeks.

VICES

What other people have.

Pride doesn’t last once it has done the harm

Anyone who was seduced wanted to be seduced.

I do not think I could hate anyone who does harm to me personally. Something greater than myself has to be involved to cause me to hate.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried.

I have washed my face.

When he made the unique speech in June 1940, he put me in his pocket for life.

FUNERAL

The accusing finger of your own conscience spelling out “nevermore.”

I am very happy with that love which bears no trace of logic or sanity.