"Much awkwardness ensued."

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Patricia Briggs

#Awkwardness Quotes

“If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.”
“We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.”
“Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.”
“It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue academia in the way that I always thought I could. I guess that was a bit of battle and just my own kind of negative thoughts about what I can achieve.”
“And that's the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I've either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.”
“My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

Source : 'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 417
“How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.”
“Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.”

Source : L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2007). “The Spellsong War: The Second Book of the Spellsong Cycle”, p.555, Macmillan

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