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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.

    Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
  • 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.

    Anita Loos (1951). “A Mouse is Born”
  • 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.

  • 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.

    1925 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ch.4.
  • 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 (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
  • 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.

    Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”
  • I've always loved high style in low company.

  • 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.

    Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.
  • Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

    Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
  • Memory is more indelible than ink.

    Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
  • In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.

    Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
  • It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

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

  • ...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.

    Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”
  • Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.

  • 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.

    Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
  • There's nothing colder than chemistry.

    Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”
  • Gentlemen prefer blondes.

    Title of book (1925)
  • 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.

    Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
  • On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

  • Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

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

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

  • 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.

  • I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

    Anita Loos (1925). “"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady”
  • 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.

  • 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, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”
  • Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

    Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult
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