Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn."
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Worn
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Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
"There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full."
Gary Jules
Musician
"Worn out places, worn out faces."
Eric Frank Russell
Science Fiction Writer
"Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poet, Novelist
"Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?"
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"Ralph Lauren was borin' before I wore him."
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"To be worn out is to be renewed."
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"When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."
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"I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny."
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"Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives."
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"Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own."
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"Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended."
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"Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote."
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"I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative."
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