"Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom"

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Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.374, Univ of California Press

Edward Sapir

#Fashion Quotes #Departure Quotes

“What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.”
“With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it; remain in this fixation until you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desired. When you emerge from the hour of prayer you must do so conscious of being and possessing that which you heretofore desired.”
“There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all of us feel we have a book inside us. It isn't an illusion. We have got a book inside us.”
“I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.”
“Love is a dangerous angel.”
“We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.”

Source : V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Other Side of a Frontier”, p.351, A&C Black
“On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.”
“Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love.”

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