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"I'm writing this down because I once heard that when you're getting older you're liable to forget things and I'd sure be the most miserable woman in this world if I ever forgot what happened this summer."
"All things considered--maybe I was just a woman in love with a surfboard."
"He gave this a moment of thought."Then he said, 'In love--I don't think I am. But I do like Franzie. I liked her from the day I saw her for the first time, out at Malibu on the board. She's got spunk and spirit. She's got warmth and enthusiasm. And--' he smiled diffidently, 'I like her particularly because I know that she likes me.'"I admit I was quite fascinated by this bit of self analysis."'I am always ready to like a girl who likes me,' the Kahoona went on. 'You see, I am basically a shy person. It's always been hard for me to believe that a woman really liked me. So if it happens--well--I really want to hold onto it.'"
"My friend the great Kahoona once told me that the sea is where we came in, and the sea is where we go out. We have crawled out of the sea and one day we're going to crawl back into it. That solution of salt is in our blood."
"All the short years of my life I have been fascinated by the word 'affair.'It sounds so decadent.And when I say short years, I say so advisedly. They have been painfully short, fifty-nine inches to be precise and that's stretching it."
"If you want to believe the Arabs, there are three things you can't hide: love, smoke and a man riding on the back of a camel."I have news for the Arabs."They have left out one other thing, and that thing is a toothache."
"Amore, I said to myself, if it is good--it is very good. And if it is bad--well--it isn't that bad."
"The bluebird of happiness had come home to roost. If this isn't heaven, I thought, lingering in his sweet embrace, I ask you, what is?"
"Everything was about to begin."I felt ridiculously young."I had groups and groups of time left."Zut alors, so free and light as I, was no one in this world."
"Life, I think, is wonderful, but people are hell."
"Surfing is out of this world. You can't imagine the thrill of the shooting the curl. Well, it positively surpasses every living emotion I've ever had."
"Something happens to parents when they have children; they forget that their kids are human beings...you show me one kid that'll go out of his way to become involved with his parents!"
"But that's not the way it's supposed to go; I can't even be a good fallen women."
"I want my epitaph to read: Here lies the only American Girl who ever came to Rome without tossing a coin in the fountain."
"episode 1. Dear Diary...Et.Al. teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"
"episode 2. In God, and Nobody Else, We Trust teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"
"episode 3. The Great Kahuna teleplay by Albert Mannheimer, Story by Frederick Kohner"
"episode 4. Daddy Come Home teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"
"episode 5. Gidget Gadget teleplay by Stephen Kandel"
"episode 6. A Hearse, A Hearse, My Kingdom for a Hearse teleplay by Louella MacFarlane"
"episode 7. Gidget is a proper noun teleplay by Austin and Irma Kalish"
"episode 8. Image Scrimage teleplay by Barbara Avedon"
"episode 9. Is It Love or Symbiosis teleplay by A.J. Mady, story by A.J. Mady and Frederick Kohner"
"episode 10. All the Best Diseases Are Taken teleplay by Tony Wilson"
"episode 11. My Ever Faithful Friend teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"
"episode 12. Chivalry Isn't Dead teleplay by John McGreevey, story by Martin Ragaway"
"episode 13. The War Between Men Women and Gidget teleplay by Leo and Pauline Townsend"
"episode 14. Gidget's Foreign Policy teleplay by Stephen Kandel"
"episode 15. Now There's a Face teleplay by Dorothy Cooper Foote"
"episode 16. Too Many Cooks teleplay by Albert Mannheimer"
"episode 17. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Think teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"
"episode 18. Like Voodoo teleplay by Albert Mannheimer"
"episode 19. Gidget's Career teleplay by Joanna Lee"
"episode 20. Ego-A-Go-Go teleplay by Barbara Avedon"
"episode 21. In and Out with the In-Laws teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"
"episode 22. We Got Each Other teleplay by John Mc Greevey"
"episode 23. Operation Shaggy Dog teleplay by Dorothy Cooper Foote"
"episode 24. Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat teleplay by Barbara Avedon"
"episode 25. Love and the Single Gidget teleplay by John Mc Greevey and Stephen Kandel, story by Lee Karson"
"episode 26. Take a Lesson teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"
"episode 27. Independence, Gidget Style teleplay by Joanna Lee"
"episode 28. One More For the Road teleplay by Irma and Austin Kalish"
"episode 29. Ask Helpful Hanna teleplay byIrma Kaish, story by Janet Carson"
"episode 30. A Hard Night's Night teleplay by Barbara Avedon"
"episode 31.I Have This Friend Who... teleplay by John Mc Greevey, stoy by Gary Flaum"
"episode 32. Don't Defrost the Alligator teleplay by Ruth Brooks Flippen"
"When you're right, you're right, and when you're wrong, you're wrong. But sometimes you can be right when you're wrong. If you're confused, hit the beach!"
"I'm always in over my head, even in heels."
"Why am I smiling? Well, at twenty-seven it's fun to be told I can't see certain movies unless accompanied by an adult."