"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."

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Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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“But what I miss the most is knowing just exactly where it hurts, knowing just exactly what is wrong and what I want.”
“Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.”

Source : Ken MacLeod (2012). “Learning The World: A novel of first contact”, p.187, Hachette UK
“The indigenous population is not responsible.... It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.”

Source : The Sunday Express, December 01, 2002.
“It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.”
“She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans." Frizz's eyebrows rose. "So let me get this straight, Aya-chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" "We need another plan," Hiro said.”
“People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination”

Source : "McQueen Leaves Fashion in Ruins" by Eric Wilson, www.nytimes.com. March 11, 2009.
“When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities - Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson; everybody!”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.”

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