"Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation."

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Source : "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.today.com. November 6, 2003.

Lynne Truss

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“I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!”
“As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but theyâ€™re not about to recognize that. Theyâ€™d rather fight over what kind of pet theyâ€™re going to get â€¦ Itâ€™s an argument for its own sake.”
“I'm a much better listener when I'm acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you're acting with is saying and how they're saying it and react in the moment to what is going on.”
“People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself.”
“Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.”
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I listen a lot to my own music when I'm in the process of making it. In the car, in the kitchen while making food, on my iPod when I go shopping, etc. I listen to it as much as possible, and if I get tired of listening to it, it's not good enough, and I leave it unreleased.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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