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"Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather."
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"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."

"An important part of dressing for success is not only wearing something well but making sure it is appropriate for the occasion or the environment."

"There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life."

"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance."

"Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic."

"Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?"

"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."

"If you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good."
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"Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large."
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