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"When I dress up, I have to have a lot of help. I was in a T-shirt until a few minutes ago."

"I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"

"I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?"

"I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up."

"There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her."
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"I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore."


"Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity."


"As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action."


"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945."


"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."
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