"Fashion is general. Style is individual."

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Source : Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase (1954). “Always in Vogue”

Edna Woolman Chase

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“Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.”

Source : Miles Franklin (1909). “Some everyday folk and dawn”
“It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].”
“Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.”

Source : David Weber (2011). “Out of the Dark”, p.66, Pan Macmillan
“Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears”
“I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.”
“If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.”

Source : Song: Escape
“Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent - the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.”

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