Anita Loos Quotes

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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

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So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

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In my youth I never kept a diary, feeling that a girl who could sell her words for money had other fish to fry.

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And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

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On a plane…you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

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The French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun.

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So then Dr Froyd said that all I needed was to cultivate a few inhibitions and get some sleep.

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Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

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One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?

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So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.

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In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.

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In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.

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A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort...

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I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

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And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

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That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A. into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

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The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soap boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
Sometimes quoted as: "I'm furious about the women's liberationists [...]"

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I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

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So I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.

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She always believed in the old adage, "Leave them while you're looking good."

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It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.

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The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of 'public relations.' Without it, America would be grim indeed.

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Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

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Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.

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I can never take for granted the euphoria produced by a cup of coffee. I'm grateful every day that it isn't banned as a drug, that I don't have to buy it from a pusher, that its cost is minimal and there's no need to increase the intake.

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She said she always believed in the old addage, 'Leave them while you're looking good.'

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Dorothy looked at me and looked at me and she really said she thought my brains were a miracle. I mean she said my brains reminded her of a radio because you listen to it for days and days and you get discouradged and just when you are getting ready to smash it, something comes out that is a masterpiece.

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A kiss on the hand may make a girl feel very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

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If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.

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