"Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy."

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Source : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”

Cornelia Otis Skinner

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“It is good for God's people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then can we be empty enough and open enough to discover the holiness we were made for. When we are stuffed full of other things and never allow ourselves to be in a place of longing, we don't recognize the deeper spiritual battle going on.”
“silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”
“This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling certainty of something sinister approaching, something with no need to hurry, something that would not be so kind as to let him die. The fear was palpable, suffocating, irresistible.”
“Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can never have to us precisely the same meaning it had for them. We cannot tear down the barricade that separates the present world from things and deeds past.”
“When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.”
“I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.”
“We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.”
“I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.”

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