Quotes by Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner

After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.

America

Play

Thinking

After my stroke I put down much of the luggage of my life. I didn’t have to prove anything anymore – in business, in my personal life or whatever. And now, as I work on my autobiography, I enjoy looking back, seeing the connections, the causes and effects of my life.

Autobiography

Cause And Effect

Enjoy

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.

College

Illinois

War

America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies.

America

Blame

Enemy

Americans are fascinated by our sexuality and frightened by it. And during the Reagan and Bush era you got an entire decade of anti-sex government. Sex is not the enemy. It is the beginning of civilization, family and tribe. Sex can be twisted and exploited, but in its most essential form, it’s the best part of who we are. And it frightens us.

Enemy

Sexuality

Twisted

As Ray Bradbury – a longtime contributor to Playboy – said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they’re talking about the contents of the magazine, they don’t see the forest. People don’t see the other part of my life because they’re too fascinated with the girls.

Girl

Long

Talking

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

Age

Cartoon

School

Beauty is everywhere – on the campus, in the office, living next door… Nice girls like sex too – it’s a natural part of life. Don’t be ashamed of it.

Girl

Nice

Sex

Because of the nature of my life, it’s difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.

Angel

People

Unorthodox

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

Christian

Feminist

Wings

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Beautiful Women

Bed

Beer

Believe

Better Place

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Blame

Block

Blonde

Blue

Boards

Body

Book

Boundaries

Boys

Business

Canada

Cartoon

Cat

Cause And Effect

Change

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Children

Choices

Christian

Church

Civilization

Class

College

Comedy

Compare

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Quotes by Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner

After my stroke I put down much of the luggage of my life. I didn’t have to prove anything anymore – in business, in my personal life or whatever. And now, as I work on my autobiography, I enjoy looking back, seeing the connections, the causes and effects of my life.

America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies.

As Ray Bradbury – a longtime contributor to Playboy – said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they’re talking about the contents of the magazine, they don’t see the forest. People don’t see the other part of my life because they’re too fascinated with the girls.

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

Beauty is everywhere – on the campus, in the office, living next door… Nice girls like sex too – it’s a natural part of life. Don’t be ashamed of it.

Because of the nature of my life, it’s difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

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