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To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Think pink, but don’t wear it.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
MitskiMitski Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
Pat ConroyPat Conroy Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.
T. Harv EkerT. Harv Eker The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who…have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp
