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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the…
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
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Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian…
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The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
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We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push…
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As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock…
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as…
— Claudia Gray
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I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt.…
— Jeff Lindsay
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His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother…
— Alice Sebold
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The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That…
— Mary E. Pearson
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How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly,…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and…
— Haruki Murakami
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No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am…
— Frida Kahlo
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As the vampire trailed a fingertip along the girl’s collarbone, she appeared to fall into a trance. It was not mind games…
— J R Ward
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A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out,…
— Gena Showalter
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The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in…
— Virginia Postrel
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
— Nancy Gibbs
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