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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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" Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.' "

" You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet. "

" It's hard to really compare new love and old love. "

" Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers. "

" In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process. "

" Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round. "

" Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. "

" I'm actually a very moral guy. "

" What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine. "

" I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart. "

" The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there. "

" 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. "

" I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me. "

" I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably. "

" 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. "

" Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am. "

" Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole. "

" The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people. "

" I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. "

" It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. "

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" The business end of business has never interested me. "

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" What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same. "

" In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life. "