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Glasses Quotes
On eyewear, style, and everyday clarity.
Eyewear shows up here as both a practical need and a style statement, from a large personal collection to a simple admission of not thinking clearly without them. It ties into broader Life observations.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal our status to other people. And we're going to co-opt a lot of those things, where wearables are going to end up being the interface between us in the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight.
- Getting Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020