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  • Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

    Law   Religion   Stones  
    William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”
  • I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.

    Sausage   Imagine   Midst  
    Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.873, Dell
  • So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.

    Girl   Teenage   Drama  
    "Half The Sky: How to Change the World". Book by Nicholas D. Kristof, September 8, 2008.
  • We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.

    Mad   Tree   Nests  
    Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”
  • One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

    World   May   Emotion  
    'Darkness at Noon' (1940) 'The Second Hearing' ch. 7
  • The Building of European Commission would be perfect for a brothel.

    gazeta.pl, May 05, 2014.
  • Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

    Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage
  • There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

    Antonin Artaud (1999). “Collected Works”, Riverrun Press
  • He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night, and each haloed light-in a tower or strung along the jeweled and sprawling spider legs of the Brooklyn Bridge's spans-hinted at some meaning, which could be understood only when made audible by music and encoded in lyrics.

    Fall   Reflection   Night  
    Arthur Phillips (2004). “The Egyptologist: A Novel”, p.515, Random House
  • The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

    Wine   Mps   Bars  
  • Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story into existence (pen, computer, whatever), and a place in which to do it (office, kitchen table, lunar brothel).

  • Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.

    Funny   Humor   Light  
  • I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted." Tessa glared. "If it helps at all, it seemed to be quite a high-class establishment. Nicely furnished, fairly clean..." "Sounds as if you've visited your fair share of brothels," Tessa said, sourly. "Making a study of them?" "More of a hobby," said Will, and smiled like a bad angel.

    Angel   Class   Trying  
  • Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a Brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions. Yet this is the Book, which young Women are recommended to study.

    Book   Names   Ideas  
    Matthew Lewis (2015). “The Monk”, p.223, Booklassic
  • I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.

  • On one hand, they [prostitutes] don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life.

  • And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

    Together   Males   World  
  • If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

    Jobs   Royal   Pianist  
    "The Princess and the Press". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. November 16, 1997.
  • He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

    Cassandra Clare (2010). “Clockwork Angel”, p.268, Simon and Schuster
  • Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

    Years   Use   Actors  
    "America’s Most Serious Twentysomething Actor". Interview with Ramin Setoodeh, www.newsweek.com. March 30, 2006.
  • I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.

  • When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

  • Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen - that's about 8 million U.S. dollars - to provide social services and health care to the surviving victims.

    Army   Japan   Korea  
    "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.
  • Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.

    Parent   Growing   Young  
    "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.
  • In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

    Kings   Guy   Use  
    "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.
  • Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.

    Girl   Dream   Sex  
  • Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

    Men   Doors   Brothels  
  • If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

  • If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.

    Girl   Rights   Sound  
    Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

    "Colombo's Hollywood: wit and wisdom of the moviemakers". Book by John Robert Colombo, p. 150, 1979.
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