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" Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so. "
Hugh Hefner
Better
I Am
Today
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" My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds. "
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" Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. "
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" I separated ways from the American feminist movement when they became anti-sexual. I believe embracing sexuality is a part of what it means to be free. "
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" I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married. "
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" One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve. "
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" When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer. "
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" I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. "
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" I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married. "
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" I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me. "
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" The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols. "
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" Part of the concept behind the magazine was breaking barriers. And it wasn't just a sexual thing. It was racial and doing the things that were right. And in the process, that set 'Playboy' apart. "
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" Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy. "
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" My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home. "
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" The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. "
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" If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it. "
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" I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. "
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Bed
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" I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably. "
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" Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am. "
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" To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent. "
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Your Dreams
Society
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" It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. "
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Good
You
Selfish
" I was an absent dad. Once the magazine started, I really had two families. The dream was the magazine. I worked through the night all the time. "
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" I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. "
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" I am in very good health. I've never felt better. "
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" Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole. "
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" Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. "
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" When 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler' came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a sophisticated men's magazine. "
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" I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I had somehow managed to miss. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble. "
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" What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine. "
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" I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children. "
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" I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave. "
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