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"It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."


"I love to talk to people who love to talk. The warmth, the energy, the humanity."


"...and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. This last, of course, excludes, those dismal slave parties, whipped and controlled and dominated, given by an ogreish professional hostess. These are not parties at all but acts and demonstrations, about as spontaneous as peristalsis and as interesting as it's end product."


"This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift through for the information you need. It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality."


"Gossip and drama are different stages of the same intoxication. the first is the buzz, the latter is the hangover."


"People by and large will relate to the image you project."


"The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts."


"Women make the world go round, men turn it upside down."


"When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty."


"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others."


"Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others."


"I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two."


"You don't know what a trial it is to be -like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me."


"People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for."


"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."


"Give me a few minutes."You have time. He sat in the grass."Are you just going to sit there and watch me?"Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best."Peasant?He shrugged. "You started the name calling."



"Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, and gay rights, which began to consolidate power in the 1990s as the baby boomers became the establishment. Their targeting of rape, battering, hate crimes, gay-bashing, and child abuse reframed law-and-order from a reactionary cause to a progressive one, and their efforts to make the home, workplace, schools, and streets safer for vulnerable groups (as in the feminist "Take Back the Night protests) made these environments safer for everyone."


"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."


"A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company."


"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."


"You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said."


"May we recognise the uniqueness of every individual and seek to complement each other."


"Build relationships and friendships by finding common experiences or interests instead of getting discouraged by noticeable differences."


"I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances."


"One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words."


"A stranger is just a friend waiting to be let in."


"I like it because when people use a lot of poker lingo, it usually means they've been playing the game for a while. Which is why I immediately avoid those people."


"So, whose man parts are you setting on fire?" he asked, quirking an eyebrow.... "No one. I was just telling Belle about how I need to lose my virginity." Aaaaand, that did it. He froze, his arm dropping from Belle's shoulders as he took a not very subtle step toward the entryway. "I need to get the door." She picked up her tulip-shaped glass, fighting a grin. "I didn't hear the doorbell."


"And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking."


"Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices."


"Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had decided a while ago that it wasn't deliberate, and that it had something to do with being Coyote's daughter. He was pretty sure that Mercy was completely oblivious."


"To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids."


"Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona."


"We don't have dealings. He just stalks me. I'm popular like that."


"A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense."


"You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down."


"A student to teacher: "I am so alone; I don't know what to do? Teacher: "Do not worry about being alone, we always come alone and go alone. In a very sweet accident, we meet others who are alone and start to be part of them in various forms of relationships such as friends, husband, wife, mother, father, sister and so on. So, life is about sharing a moment together, not thinking as if you are alone."


"Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures."


"Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved."
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