"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience."
"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."
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Source: Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada
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