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"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"

"By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master."

"But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!"

"You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script."

"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."
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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."


"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."


"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."


"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."


"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
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