"The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in……" — Salman Rushdie

The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to… - Salman Rushdie

"The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls."

— Salman Rushdie

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