Quotes with veneer

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• Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

  Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)

  ― Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.

  ― Bryan Batt
  American actor (1963 - )
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• It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

  ― George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

  ― Carlos Fuentes
  Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• westernization
• understand
• beautiful
• sometimes
• strength
• theaters

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