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.

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Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

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If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

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In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

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Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

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Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.

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The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

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If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.

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I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me.

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My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner."

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The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.

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It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.

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Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

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Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too.

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Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.

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I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.

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It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

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I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

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The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

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Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

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Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

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