AREN’T THE RUSSIANS WONDERFUL?
AREN'T the Russians marvelous people!
We’ve been taking up Diaghileff in a serious way—our little group, you know—and, really, he’s wonderful!
Who else but Diaghileff could give those lovely Russian things the proper accent?
And accent—if you know what I mean—accent is everything!
Accent! Accent! What would art be without accent?
Accent is coming in—if you get what I mean—and what they call "punch" is going out. I always thought it was a frightfully vulgar sort of thing, anyhow—punch!
The thing I love about the Russians is their Orientalism.
You know, there’s an old saying that if you find a Russian you catch a Tartar . . . or something like that.
I’m sure that is wrong. . . . I get so mixed on quotations. But I always know where I can find them, if you know what I mean.
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