# Quote — Matt Hughes, Hespira

> The combined effect of so many ambulatory sticks and balls, each of whom wore an expression of complete self-satisfaction, added strength to my longstanding belief that the profession of couturier required only a good knowledge of fabric and a malicious sense of humor.

- Author: [Matt Hughes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes.md)
- Book: [Hespira](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/hespira.md)
- Page: 9
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Hughes_(writer)#Hespira_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/hespira/the-combined-effect

## More from this book

> When all the good ideas have been expended, I quoted to myself, one might as well try a bad one.

p. 222 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/hespira/when-all-the.md)

> “Magic,” said my integrator, “has rules. At the heart of the willful, associative universe, we find a modicum of rationalism, just as we find uncertainty at the core of the rational cosmos.”
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> “Exactly,” I said. “And there seems no other explanation for it than sheer perversity on the part of whatever entity is responsible for the whole untidy business.”
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> I thought about it a moment more then said, “Perversity, or just a very idiosyncratic sense of humor.”

p. 176 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/hespira/magic-said-my-integrator.md)

> When we have done more traveling together, you will come to see that occasionally we must be other than forthright with local authorities. Many of them lack imagination and react poorly to creativity and unexpected innovation.

p. 154 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/hespira/when-we-have.md)