"Slurring is the cursive of speech..."

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Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.92, Penguin

Amor Towles

#Speech Quotes #Cursive Quotes

“we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.”
“Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom.”
“The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling”
“Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.”
“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”
“When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.”
“I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties.”
“For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.”

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