Best quotes by Julie Burchill on Beauty

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• ‟ Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.

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• ‟ Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

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• ‟ Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

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• ‟ I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

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• ‟ The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

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• ‟ What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

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• ‟ What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

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