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"It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life."
"The violence of a lower-class man may indeed express rage, but it is aimed not at society but at the asshole who scraped his car and dissed him in front of a crowd."
"Being petty allows you to make mountains out of molehills."
"For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes."
"People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why."
"Gestures and the Signals They Send Rubbing your face, palms, and neck may signify anxiety and stress. Arms crossed with clenched fists may signify hostility, anger, and impatience. Arms crossed with each hand gripping other arm may signify insecurity and self-doubt. Arms crossed with thumbs up may signify interest and engagement. Or my favorite-arms crossed may signify that you are simply cold! Fidgeting and squirming may signify that you are lying, afraid of being found out, insecure, or uncomfortable. Standing with your hands behind your back may signify power and superiority."
"We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say."
"Emotional intelligence will give you insight as to why people behave as they do and assist you in areas which you may wish to improve."
"Consider how others may feel about you before, during, and after talking. Are you projecting an attitude that results in others feeling accepted and welcome? Are you encouraging people to speak and engage with you through your approachability?"
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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
"I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career."
"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."
"Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed."
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
"Maturity, Bokonontells us, "is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unlesslaughter can be said to remedy anything."
"Yes, and our sister's sons are candid now about a creepy business which used to worry them a lot: They cannot find their mother or their father in their memories anywhere - not anywhere. The goat farmer, whose name is James Carmalt Adams, Jr., said this about it to me, tapping his forehead with his fingertips: "It isn't the museum, it should be." The museums in children's minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horror - to protect the children from eternal grief."
"Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant's father had done a similar thing when he found he could not buy Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" at any price. The old man had punished Mona Lisa by having her used in an advertising campaign for suppositories. It was the free-enterprise way of handling beauty that threatened to get the upper hand."
"I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."
"She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all."
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