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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#calls #come #fun #go #i

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#bed #before #fall #go #hours

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#bed #between #control #eat #enough

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#first #first thing #get #i #i do

Work is making a living out of being bored. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#bored #living #making #making a living #out

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#back #build #collection #feel #finished

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#breathe #certain #characters #conveying #enabling

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#buildings #dusty #east #fallen #fled

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#embrace #first #handshake #perhaps #sentence

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#around #could #getting #hang #hope