“You always hear about fashion's success stories. How a starlet lost an earring one night and by the next morning, the entire country was wearing one earring. Or how sweaters made a comeback in a drugstore, or a First Lady influenced how we dressed during her reign. But what about the losers? The fashions that came and went out the same day? The hopes and dreams of designers that were shattered by the sound of fifty million women ... laughing themselves to death.” FirstsMadeCountryStoriesDreamNightNextLostSoundMorningMillionsLaughingFashionDesignerFiftyLoserReignOne NightComebackShatteredSweatersHopes And DreamsFirst LadyEarringsSuccess StoriesStarlets Book:The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly feel the pity of things. The beauty of life is in its impermanence. Man lives the longest of all living things... and even one year lived peacefully seems very long. Yet for such as love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.” IfsMenWorldFeelsYearsLongDreamSeemsLife IsNightForeverThousandPitySmokeHuman ConditionFadesThousand YearsLiving ThingsOne NightDewImpermanenceFadedBeauty Of LifeNever Fade Author:Yoshida Kenko