Anita Loos Quotes

#1. Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

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#2. I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.

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#3. 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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#4. I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

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#5. 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.

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#6. You can say what you want about the Germans being full of "kunst", but what they are really full of is delicatessen.

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#7. 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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#8. I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.

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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

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#13. I've always loved high style in low company.

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#14. 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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#15. Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

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#16. A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

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#17. 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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#18. Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.

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#19. 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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#20. Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.

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#21. Does this boat go to Europe, France?

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#22. 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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#23. Gentlemen prefer blondes ... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

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#24. Memory is more indelible than ink.

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#25. I'm furious about 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.

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

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#27. 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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#28. Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

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#29. Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.

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#30. 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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#31. Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

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#32. In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

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

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#34. I overheard Dorothy talking to Mr Montrose and she was telling Mr Montrose that she thought that I would be great in the movies if he would write me a part that only had three expressions, Joy, Sorrow, and Indigestion.

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#35. Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.

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

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#37. 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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#38. So Dorothy said we might was well go out to Fountainblo with Louie and Robber if Louie would take off his yellow spats which were made of yellow shammy skin with pink pearl buttons. Because Dorothy said, 'Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all the time.

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#39. I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting.

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#40. 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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#41. If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

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

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#43. Fate keeps happening.

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#44. I mean Fanny is almost historical, because when a girl is cute for 50 years it really begins to get historical.

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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

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#48. Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever

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#49. Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

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#50. I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.

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#51. It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

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#52. 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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#53. There's nothing colder than chemistry.

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