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Going to a hooker was not looked down upon then. It was before the pill; girls weren't giving it away.

— Taki Theodoracopulos

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Source: From an interview, as cited in William Stadiem "Behind Claude’s Doors", Vanity Fair (September 2014; online: 22 September 2014)
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Golden Dawn members might need some lessons in social etiquette, but what the bien pensant need much more is to get off the pot and their double standards. Golden Dawn members are mostly labourers, martial artists, cops, security personnel and good old-fashioned patriotic Greeks.

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On being a client of Madame Claude, the French brothel keeper, in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Like that stupid woman writing in the IHT and warning against a fascist takeover of Greece; no such luck, I'm afraid.

So the next time you read some leftie old hag banging on about the fascist evils ready to take over in Greece, use their newspaper writings in the smallest room in your house.

I am old enough to have had many friends who spent the war years in Paris under German occupation, and now I read what I always knew to be true: for many, Paris 1940 to 1944 was a non-stop party.

I was 23 when I went over to her place with Rubirosa [...] It was the late 50s, and she was already a legend.

In Harvey's case, there is a lot to hang him with, and now that it's out in the open, they are all creeping out of the woodwork. Even an ugly waitress has suddenly recalled that she served the 'pig' while he hit on women. It's funny how feelings of anxiety and degradation suddenly appear when these kinds of revelations hit the papers.

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