"Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography."

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Source : Linda Grant (2010). “The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

Linda Grant

#Fashion Quotes #Baby Quotes #Winter Quotes

“She could have a Grammy I'd still treat her ***** like a nominee.”
“I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.”
“Things don't go away. They become you.”

Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.186, Random House
“One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”
“The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.”
“Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.”
“Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.”
“I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read.”

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