“The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.”
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“Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.”
“Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.”
“People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?”
“How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!”
“In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.”
“Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.”
“No one's more important than people.”
“I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.”
“The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.”
“Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.”
“People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.”
“I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.”
“Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.”
“Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.”
“Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.”
“It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.”
“What I hear from people out there is they always say that [Donald Trump] doesn't like us. And so they're energized.”
“[People] are ready to go out and vote. There's a difference between being ready and energized and actually going out and voting.”
“At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.”