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G. Bruce Boyer
"Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure."
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Source : G. Bruce Boyer (2015). “True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear”, p.139, Hachette UK
G. Bruce Boyer
#Insecure Quotes
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“Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.”
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“Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.”
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“I was in love with loving.”
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“Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you’re reminded of what this baby’s carrying under the hood.”
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“In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them . . . . He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them. In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”
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“Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.”
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“The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.”
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“I take it so seriously as far as meditation, notes, visualization, preparation, everything. I take it a lot more serious than a lot of people that play this sport. I'm obsessed with the game that I play.”
