Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who … - Alison Lurie

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The point of existence is not to find the most powerful thing you can imagine and then grovel before it.

Alison Lurie

Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

Bed, Clothes, Like, Say, Talking, Telling

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As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

California, Europe, Future, Past

Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.

Create, Help, Independent, Rote, School, Self Esteem

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Bald, Lying, Silence, Silent, Truth, Women

in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

Art, Imagination, Literature, Real, Usually, What Matters

We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.

Dress, Dresses, Every Morning, Morning, Say

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Joan Baez

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

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Lucas Mann

Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel - that the construction of the book and the lineage of people constructing novels are always part of the story the author is telling. I think the equivalent for memoir should be that all memoirs are, in some way, about the process of memory. Memoirs are made out of a confusing, flawed act of creation.

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Jim Connolly

Sadly, an average service that's well marketed will always generate massively more money, than a great service, which too few people know about. Think about it: People can't hire you, if they don't know you exist - regardless of how amazing you are.

Average, Marketed, Money, People, Think, Thinking

Graham Kendall