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As a card-carrying nosey-parker and professional obsessive, I read up on the subject and learned that Baudelaire was a real pernickety dresser and a bit of a dude; this was my kind of guy. I too would be an Urban Poet.

— John Cooper Clarke I Wanna Be Yours (2020)

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You can count on him. He'll always let you down.

Marcel was a modern-day Robin Hood; he would rob from the rich because the poor have no money.

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You know, like they say: never trust a thin chef, or a doctor with leprosy.

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Having been a tubercular kid with a malformed physique, I have a dread of any situation where the shedding of garments might be required. I can't even swim.

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At some point, the Mod look had a short-lived Country Life moment, when the gorgeous mohair sheen of the three-button suit gave way to matte autumnal earth tones. Give it a name: fucking brown.

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