Andre Gide
French author and Nobel laureate (1869-1951)
Julie Burchillis an English writer. Beginning as a staff writer at the New Musical Express at the age of 17, she has since contributed to newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Guardian.
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Julie Burchillis an English writer. Beginning as a staff writer at the New Musical Express at the age of 17, she has since contributed to newspapers such as The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Her writing, which was described by John Arlidge in The Observer in 2002 as “outrageously outspoken” and “usually offensive,” has been the subject of legal action. Burchill is also a novelist, and her 2004 novel Sugar Rush was adapted for television.
9 Quotes by Julie Burchill
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It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast.
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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
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Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
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A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
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A good part – and definitely the most fun part – of being a feminist is about frightening men.
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As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
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Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I’ll show you a little man.
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