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"Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body."
"a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes"
"The apparel oft proclaims the man."
"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."
"If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting"
"My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!"
"Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes."
"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."
"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
"Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful."
"I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write."
"When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off."
"No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love."
"I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist."
"You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative."
"Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies."
"Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun."
"My mama couldn't give me what I wanted. I had all right clothes, but the people I was with had better clothes. I felt that I had to have better clothes."
"Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness."
"A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs."
