New Year Quotes - Page 20

• New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

  James Agate

  Witty, Years, Resolution

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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• I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.

  Julie Burchill

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Work, Reading, Flower

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• The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Fashion, Years, Principles

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