“There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives…”

“I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

“Women need to become literary "criminals", break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.”

Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet

“Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.”

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi

“To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true.”

Tim O'Brien book The Things They Carried

“We don’t live in a world of fixed historical laws that says the—as you describe it—liberal state was born at a particular time, lived and died, and that’s what we’re stuck with. But there are reasons why some things are much harder to retain, to invent, to reinvent than others.”

Tony Judt (1948–2010) British historian

“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See