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"That's depressing, when somebody says "please" to you."
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"(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach."
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"That's depressing, when somebody says "please" to you."
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"You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love."
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"Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power."
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"You said "Hi", I to be polite will say "Bye"!"
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"When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'."
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"Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you."
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"And as is often the case, the people who would benefit the most from reading a book like this are the ones least likely to buy and read it. For you, however, this chapter will serve as a sterling reminder to make your manners shine."
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"Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within."
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"Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody."
Judgment
"John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on."
Poetry
"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking."
Wisdom
"Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word."
Silence
"I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human consciousness."
Art
"I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck."
Education
"She was not one for emptying her face of expression."
Expression
"When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."
Mortality
"I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something."
Humor
"You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live."
Life
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