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| 59f5f92 | The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state. ...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard. | free magazine men-of-straw straw-men rotten preachers liberal self-deception prison state school | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 6f7d776 | I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. | magazine promises | Alice Sebold | |
| 7c6eb50 | Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty. | gloss photograph magazine photo shallow plastic superficial fake makeup fashion pretty ugly | Rebecca McNutt |