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Andrew Vachss

"Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball."

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"Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball."

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"A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired."

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"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."

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"If you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good."

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"Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury."

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"The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance."

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"For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms."

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"A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing."

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"Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?"

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"Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under't."

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"I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure."
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