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"When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather."
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"Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That's the reason they call what us sing the devil's music. Devils love to fuck."
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"Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose."
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"We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not."
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"When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else. I have no interest in dating."
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"Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them - than when you are alone."
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"We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail."
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"It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye."
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"They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep."
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"To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids."
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"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
Friendship
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
Experience
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
Progress
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
Power
"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
Man
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
Hope
"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments."
Man
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
Happiness
"Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates."
Grief
"Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel."
Time
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