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"Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball."
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"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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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"Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist."

"A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids."

"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."

"The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape."
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