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Social Quotes
"I stayed with him for three days, and he then asked: 'Do you know any craft by which to make your living?' I told him: 'I am a lawyer, a scientist, a scribe, a mathematician and a calligrapher.' 'There is no market for that kind of thing here,' he replied. 'No one in this city has any knowledge of science or of writing and their only concern is making money.' 'By God,' I said, 'I know nothing apart from what I have told you."
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"The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them."
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"The defects of a preacher are soon spied."
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"Aiden whirled on the tall cowboy. "What the fuck's your problem? Teresa looks like sex on heels so pull that stick out of your ass."
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"You keep right on building that fence, Faye. See what good it does you."
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"You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest."
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"As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone."
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"I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said."It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face."
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"He with the cleanest clothes isn't necessarily the cleanest."
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"Become skilled in the process of selecting whom you allow into your circle of influence."
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"Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account."
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"The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory."
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"Your vibe creates your tribe."
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"Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole object of their lives to be always playing with fire. Mrs. Allonby: The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up."
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"White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. White women may be victimized by sexism, but racism enables them to act as exploiters and oppressors of black people. Both groups have led liberation movements that favor their interests and support the continued oppression of other groups. Black male sexism has undermined struggles to eradicate racism just as white female racism undermines feminist struggle. As long as these two groups or any group defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others."
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"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
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"Want to grab a beer at Howler's?"Drake blinked, unsure he'd heard him right. After just battering each other to a pulp, Gabriel wanted to geta drink with him?..."Why are you asking me?"Gabriel shrugged, then winced."Because that's what males do. We beat the shit out of each other, then go have a beer afterward."
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"There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret."
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"I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy."
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"Sunshine, I... Starla's voice broke off as she entered the room and caught sight of him standing naked in the corner. She eyed him in an odd, detached way, as if he were an interesting piece of furniture.Talon and modesty were strangers, but the way she stared at him made him damned uncomfortable. In spite of the sunlight, Talon grabbed the pink blanket off the bed and clutched it to his middle.You know, Sunshine, you need to find a man like that to marry. Someone so well hung that even after three or four kids, he'd still be wall to wall.Talon gaped.Sunshine laughed. "Starla, you're embarrassing him."
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"When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV."
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"Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose."
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"My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms."
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"If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit."
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"Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn."
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"Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred."
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"What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule?" asked Scicpio. "And what for do you look so black at me?""No matter, darky," said the carpenter. "Do you think nobody is to look black but yourself?"
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"They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie."
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"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
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"A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances."
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"I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole."
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"A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost."
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"You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between."
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"Adrian was completely deadpan. 'So. You're saying my sister is dressed like a prostitute."
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"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover."
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"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."
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"Many wealthy people donate, and while the skeptical may claim that they do so for tax breaks, there is another reason involved - as a spiritual practice."
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"Garp didn't want a daughter because of men. Because of bad men, certainly; but even, he thought, because of men like me."
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"The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins."
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