"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork."
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"I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look."
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"I collect clothes-they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed."
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"Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want."
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"I'm not body-shy -- it's hard to grow up in the Summerlands, where clothes are solidly optional, and stay body-shy -- but that doesn't mean I enjoy nudity. Naked people are, by definition, unarmed."
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"A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice."
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"Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects."
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"She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain."
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"Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties."
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"It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them."
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"Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous."
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"I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up."
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"This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been."
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"It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes."
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"Consider that in this very moment, your body is changing as it reshuffles and exchanges its atoms and molecules with the rest of the universe - and you're doing it faster than you can change your clothes."
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"Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute."
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"People's clothes ought to be buried with them."
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"Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now to be the boundary of my existence, told to surrender my clothes, handed that comic invention, the hospital gown, and sent to bed in broad daylight like a child being stripped of her privileges."
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"Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him."
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"I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look."
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