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"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development."

"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."

"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal."

"People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked."

"Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor."
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"Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."

"I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer."

"A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him."

"Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos."

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."

"In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel."
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