Vice is its own reward.
QUENTIN CRISPFashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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To lose is not always failure.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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