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Do I like tawdry, sleazy stories? Yeah, I do. -- Errol Morris
I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again. -- Oliver Reed
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. -- Edmund Leach
Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city. -- David Hewson
The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious. -- Giles Gilbert Scott
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My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy. -- Mallory Ortberg
Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. -- Arthur C. Clarke
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul. -- Josef Pieper
It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me. -- Stephen Fry

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