27 Quotes by Shirley Conran



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    With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

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    A Superwoman isn’t a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.

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    Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed.

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    I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy.

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    At eighteen I thought I knew everything, then at thirty, I realized that I knew nothing – and possibly never would, which depressed me until I noticed that no one else knew anything either.

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