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"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."
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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
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"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
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"We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable."
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"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
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"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."
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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."
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"I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from."
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"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
Possession
"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens."
Creativity
"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
Fashion
"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."
History
"The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion."
Fashion
"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."
Fashion
"Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh."
Fashion
"Design is an unknown."
Design
"A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives."
Dress
"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
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