"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."

Fashion, Fire

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"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."

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"Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."

Logan Pearsall Smith, American Critic

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"With right fashion, every female would be a flame."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Which outfits do you get the most compliments on when you are wearing them? What colors make you feel healthy, vibrant, and alive?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Jewelry maybe is more expensive than clothes, but clothes are more important than jewelry."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."

Robert Bork, American Public Servant

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"Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady."

Edith Head, American Designer

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"Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision."

Upton Sinclair, American Author

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"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means."

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"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."

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"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."

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"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."

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"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure."

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