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J. K. Rowling quote: "--yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often...."
--yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. J. K. Rowling
Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward. Augusten Burroughs
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. Lee Iacocca
A poem is never a put-up job.... It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a loneliness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness. Robert Frost
Virginia Woolf quote: "Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One..."
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. Virginia Woolf
Jodi Picoult quote: "The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming..."
The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow. Jodi Picoult
let us call on M. de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one's spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters. Alexander Dumas
I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it. Suzanne Collins
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. Anton Chekhov
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind. Christopher Hitchens
...I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave abominably, and with such abominable results. They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books. Kurt Vonnegut
The desert landscape is always at its best in the half-light of dawn or dusk. The sense of distance lacks: a ridge nearby can be a far-off mountain range, each small detail can take on the importance of a major variant on the countryside's repetitious theme. The coming of day promises a change; it is only when the day had fully arrived that the watcher suspects it is the same day returned once again--the same day he has been living for a long time, over and over, still blindingly bright and... Paul Bowles
I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell. Dee Dee Ramone
Paulo Coelho quote: "Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and..."
Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that. Paulo Coelho
Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires. -- Robert A. Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Robert A. Heinlein

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