"Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other."

-- Dorothy Parker

#Dirty Quotes #Mean Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Our words must seem to be inevitable.”
“I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.”
“Why do they call it losing your virginity, anyway? It's Not Like I don't know where I left it." "You'd be surprised how many people don't.”
“When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.”

Source : Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.42, Oxford University Press
“We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.”
“I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.”
“religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.”
“A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.”

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