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Flannels Quotes

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Gustave Flaubert (2015). “The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence”, p.142, e-artnow

The omelette tasted like flannel.

James Blish (2017). “A Case of Conscience”, p.109, Open Road Media

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 122 (1917)

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

"The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

I exchanged my flannel shirt for a Rangers jersey and zapped the television on. Probably I should make more phone calls, but the Rangers were playing and priorities were priorities.

Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.460, Simon and Schuster