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Memoirist Inspirational Quotes (4581)

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I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
Anita Loos
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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.
Anita Loos
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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?
Anita Loos
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Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
Anita Loos
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor Hugo
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
Victor Hugo
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I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character' possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
Anita Loos
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
Victor Hugo
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Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
Anita Loos
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There's nothing colder than chemistry.
Anita Loos
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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.
Anita Loos
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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.
Anita Loos
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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
Victor Hugo
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I've always loved high style in low company.
Anita Loos
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I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.
Anita Loos
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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.
Anita Loos
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
Victor Hugo
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
Victor Hugo
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Victor Hugo
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
Victor Hugo
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
Victor Hugo
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
Victor Hugo
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo
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