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"Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them."
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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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"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others."
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"Four days, eight days, twelve days passed, and he was invited to teas, to suppers, to lunches. They sat talking through the long green afternoons - they talked of art, of literature, of life, of society and politics. They ate ice creams and squabs and drank good wines."
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
Life

"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."
Responsibility

"We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war."
Conflict

"Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves."
Truth

"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
Adaptation

"Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones."
Recognition

"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."
Knowledge

"The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power."
Power

"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
Strength

"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still."
Time
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