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“I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.”

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Hugh Hefner

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“After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.”

World War Feet College Cold Twenties University War Of The Worlds Length Conformity Cold War Conservatism Symbolic Skirts Roaring Illinois Roaring Twenties

Author:Hugh Hefner

“I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand.”

Thinking Hands Oppression Dictatorship Hand In Hand

Author:Hugh Hefner

“You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.”

People Choices Including Personal Choice

Author:Hugh Hefner

“I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.”

World Political Particular Duty

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.”

Mind Culture Resources Library Unnecessary Utility Education System

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.”

Thinking Philosophy Dream Connected American Dream Playboy

Author:Hugh Hefner

“One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Problem Language Force Levels Issues Particular Tvs Lows Wide Abstract Complexity Vocabulary Outlook Grammar Watching Tv Low Level Abstract Thinking

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's empowering and offers a way to speak about yourself that you don't have if all you are doing is reading the newspaper and watching TV.”

Ifs Way Book Sometimes Reading Found Speak Language Difficult Tvs Offers Complexes Newspapers Empowering About Yourself Watching Tv

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.”

Book Dialogue

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.”

Mind States Body America Church Limits Supposed To Be Mind And Body Inappropriate Inconsistent

Author:Hugh Hefner

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