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'I thought I, and the many friends I encourage to stay at the Savoy, were considered GUESTS, not thieves!'
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'I thought I, and the many friends I encourage to stay at the Savoy, were considered GUESTS, not thieves!'

Marlene Dietrich fires back

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Shaun Usher
Dec 27, 2021
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Would it surprise you to learn that I miss you very very much indeed? In order to console myself I am thinking of taking up with Marlene Dietrich. So don’t linger too long at Montepulciano if you value the rather touching fidelity of your old sheep dog.

Vita Sackville-West
Letter to Virginia Woolf
17th May 1923

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