If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
QUENTIN CRISPThe gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call “the trouble with you.” Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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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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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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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 trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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The trouble with children is that they’re not returnable.
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I never say ‘No’ to anything.
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It’s a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.
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If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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