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Tag Name "Brothel" (30)

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If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.
Simone Weil
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We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The initial idea was a friendship between two prostitutes, and I spent time with a vice squad guy in Cincinnati who brought me to a brothel and gave me the rundown on how street prostitution works.
Veena Sud
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The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
W. H. Auden
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The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
William Faulkner
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
Antonin Artaud
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In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
Ben Hecht
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He banged on the side of the carriage. Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.
Cassandra Clare
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No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.
Cyril Connolly
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I'll leave it to you, Sassenach, he said dryly, to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.
Diana Gabaldon
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Building of European Commission would be perfect for a brothel.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates
Malcolm Muggeridge
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This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.
Ruta Sepetys
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The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.
Sonia Faleiro
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I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace. It's aberrant, but a workplace nonetheless. I was more interested as opposed to glamorizing and saying, oh, this is a great erotic place, it's a place of business. The commodity is sex.
Taylor Hackford
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Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.
Vigen Guroian
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When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.
Warren Buffett
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah
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One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
Arthur Koestler
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I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing.
Bradley Cooper
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Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story into existence (pen, computer, whatever), and a place in which to do it (office, kitchen table, lunar brothel).
Chuck Wendig
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To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel.
David Penhaligon
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