"Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters."

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Source : Anne Hollander (1993). “Seeing Through Clothes”, p.355, Univ of California Press

Anne Hollander

#Lying Quotes #Clothes Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.”

Source : James Alan Gardner (1997). “Expendable”, p.191, Harper Collins
“To the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.”
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

Source : "Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.
“For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done, they're a lot of fun. The truth is, I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy, it's a good word.”
“I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.”
“I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I had my first kiss under a tree near the school. It was with a boy named Michael who rarely spoke, but he would sometimes give me one of the cookies from his lunch. Maybe it was the gifts that made me feel special? I don't know, but when our lips touched, it felt magical.”
“My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half.”

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