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"Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues."
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"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."
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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."
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"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."
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"The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends."
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"Most of us don't notice how great we look until years, even decades later. Not long ago, I was looking at photos of myself at various ages and weights-way before the neckular deterioration began, way before the fanny pack of menopause-and I could see how gorgeous I must have looked to everyone else."
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"For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms."
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"A beautiful lady with an evil heart is like a hundred dollar note cut in two with one piece missing."
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"If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained."
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"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."
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"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen."
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"Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues."
Appearance
"Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems."
Appearance
"Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107."
Age
"Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals."
Care
"I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life."
Life
"Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look."
Beauty
"What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence."
Sex
"I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light."
Hope
"In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it."
Change
"We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster."
Age
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