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“Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.”
― D.V.
― D.V.
“Our studies prove that the longer a shopper remains in a store, the more he or she will buy. And the amount of time a shopper spends in a store depends on how comfortable and enjoyable the experience is.”
― Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
― Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
“My dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing.”
― D.V.
― D.V.
“He kept every book he ever read. Until there were just too many, he had them all out on shelves, their spines displayed as trophies, like the taxidermied heads of big game he had bagged.”
― The Pint Man
― The Pint Man
“The ascendance of Will Rogers in the early 1920s was not just a product of hard work. He was also the right man in the right place at exactly the right time. The mass media as we know them now began in the aftermath of World War I: The ten years after the armistice saw the development of radio, phonograph records, newsreels, and syndicated newspaper features, and great growth in the technological sophistication and influence of motion pictures and advertising. All were predicated on the notion that millions of people, people who hitherto had been separated by geography, outlook, and class, could share the same symbolic experience at roughly the same time.”
― Will Rogers: A Biography
― Will Rogers: A Biography
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