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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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Anita Loos
Age: 92 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1981
Died: August 18
Autobiographer
Film Actor
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Mount Shasta
California
Corinne Anita Loos
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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
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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.
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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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I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.
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I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.
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Memory is more indelible than ink.
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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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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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Fate keeps on happening.
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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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Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.
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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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with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.
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It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
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If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
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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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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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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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Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
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Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
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