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"I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life."
"There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes."
"Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small."
"Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea's breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should."
"I really believe in clothes that are new, that are innovative - but that everybody wants to wear."
"A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable."
"No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience."
"At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen."
"It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture."
"In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself."
"For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms."
"Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty."
"Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat."
"But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy."
"South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide!"
"Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on."
"Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays."
"When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that's when I love to wear clothes."
"We chat about clothes and if we're going on the red carpet we definitely talk about what we are going to wear."
"All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming."
