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I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were too plump and busty looked like little sausages.


Iris Apfel

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IRIS MURDOCH Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveri...
IRIS MURDOCH Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re f...
IRIS MURDOCH Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.
IRIS CHANG Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
IRIS MURDOCH Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereb...
IRIS JOHANSEN ... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a ...
IRIS MURDOCH Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
IRIS MURDOCH What is more tormenting than a meeting after a long time, when all the words fall to the ground like...
IRIS MURDOCH ...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L...
IRIS ANTHONY Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t...
IRIS MURDOCH As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
IRIS CHANG Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved noth...
IRIS MURDOCH The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more ...
IRIS MURDOCH Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ...
IRIS MURDOCH I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those...
IRIS MURDOCH Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ...
IRIS JOHANSEN People were worried; they thought we were going to go to nuclear war when there was a conflict with ...
IRIS WEINSHALL We find stuff all the time, but what's sort of eerie about this is that this is a bridge that thousa...
IRIS WEINSHALL In attempting to minimize congestion, perhaps we were more cautious than we should have been.
IRIS WEINSHALL It's not like we're putting this on eBay.
IRIS WEINSHALL