"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

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"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

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"Italy is a divided country without a center."

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"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."

"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."

"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."

"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."

"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

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