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Anita Loos

People best know American writer Anita Loos for her novels, especially

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

(1925), which she later adapted for film; her many screenplays include

The Girl from Missouri

(1934).

She authored plays and her blockbuster comic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos


“I've always loved high style in low company.”
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“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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“...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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“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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“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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“Fate keeps happening.”
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“A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.”
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“Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.”
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“It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.”
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“Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.”
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