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The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.
Alison Lurie
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Alison Lurie
Age: 94 †
Born: 1926
Born: September 3
Died: 2020
Died: December 3
Essayist
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Alison Stewart Lurie
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There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
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Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.
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But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.
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Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.
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With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.
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Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.
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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.
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As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
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We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.
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America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.
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You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.
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