"Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain."

-- Georges Duhamel

#Taken Quotes #Courtesy Quotes #Refuge Quotes

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
“Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best things about the men they've loved and to remember the worst, which is why so many women become bitter about men.”

Source : James Carlos Blake (2015). “The House of Wolfe: A Border Noir”, p.98, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“... to find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it, for in announcing it, you place it there in their reality.”
“Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.”
“I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.”
“Only youth has a taste of immortality.”
“There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.”
“Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed.”

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