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"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."
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"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."

"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had."

"I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must."

"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."

"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."

"I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one."
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"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."


"The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!"


"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."


"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."


"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."


"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."


"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."
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