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Cecil Beaton Quotes: Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
         

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.


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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.



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Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.



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Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.



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After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.



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The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.



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