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"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
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Personal Development
"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."
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Personal Development
"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
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Personal Development
"Never miss day without a walk."
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Personal Development
"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
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Personal Development
"Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar."
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Personal Development
"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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Personal Development
"The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit."
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Personal Development
"It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring."
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"I believe in a glamorous life. I believe in the everyday application of the outrageous."
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"Choice and perception are closely linked. They are unique, personal and emotional."
Philosophy
"It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one's own terms."
Success
"I'll be off exploring, searching for those out-of-bounds places where dreams exist."
Exploration
"The past informs the present."
History
"Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean's The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it's the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse."
Work
"Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply."
Ethics
"I like working among 'creative clutter'. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement."
Creativity
"You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you."
Freedom
"We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become."
Society
"I wish for a simple life."
Simplicity
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