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What to Wear to Rome in the Fall

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“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” ― Marcus Aure...

What to Wear to New York City in the Winter

2 years ago

What to Wear to New York City in the Winter

2 years ago

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it...

What to Wear to Paris in the Winter

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What to Wear to Paris in the Winter

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“When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” ― Oscar Wilde

What to Wear to Paris in the Fall

2 years ago

What to Wear to Paris in the Fall

2 years ago

“Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the o...

What to Wear to San Diego in the Spring

10 months ago

What to Wear to San Diego in the Spring

10 months ago

“On the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fr...

What to Wear to Paris in the Spring

2 years ago

What to Wear to Paris in the Spring

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“Such a healthy, simple, approving glance as if he were saying to hims...

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.” ― Tom Wolfe

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Fashion changes, but style endures.” ― Coco Chanel

“See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus

“Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.” ― Françoise Sagan

“Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.” ― Pat Conroy

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ― Lao Tzu

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

“Barcelona,” Don Quixote exclaimed, is a “fountain of courtesy, shelter of strangers, hospice to the poor, land of the valiant, avenger of the offended, reciprocator of firm friendship, a city unique in its location and beauty.” - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.” ― Mary Schmich, Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life

“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.” ― Johnny Cash

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here." ― Oprah Winfrey

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.” ― Colette

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.” ― A.A. Milne

“A man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.” ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.” ― Mark Twain, Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands

“No city could be more beautiful than Charleston during the brief reign of azaleas, no city on earth.” ― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“We may be standoffish,” she said, “but we’re not hostile. We’re famously hospitable, in fact, even by southern standards. Savannah’s called the ‘Hostess City of the South,’ you know. That’s because we’ve always been a party town. We love company. We always have. “ ― John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.” ― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make

“I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.” ― Colm Tóibín

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.” ― Jack Kerouac

“On the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro, singing her husky song, As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes, and of the future.” ― Walt Whitman

“If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.” ― Dolly Parton

“The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla's on the loose! Get up, already!” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, "Why, it is life.” ― Emily Hahn, Congo Solo; Misadventures Two Degrees North

“This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.” ― Alexander McCall Smith

“Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.” ― Audrey Hepburn

“The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination.” ― George Bernard Shaw

“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.” ― Angela Carter

“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.” ― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Oh, I love London Society! It has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.” ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. ― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” ― Tennessee Williams

“Such a healthy, simple, approving glance as if he were saying to himself: “Ah, spring is coming!” And God knows, when spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.” ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” ― Coco Chanel