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I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.


Diane Arbus


#arranging #awkwardness #front #i #instead

I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.


Darin Strauss


#embarrassment #high-school #life

When we entered a classroom we always tossed our caps on the floor, to free our hands; as soon as we crossed the threshold we would throw them under the bench so hard that they struck the wall and raised a cloud of dust; this was "the way it should be done." But the new boy either failed to notice this maneuver or was too shy to perform it himself, for he was still holding his cap on his lap at the end of the prayer. It was a head-gear of composite nature, combining elements of the busby, the lancer cap, the round hat, the otter-skin cap and the cotton nightcap--one of those wretched things whose mute ugliness has great depths of expression, like an idiot's face. Egg-shaped and stiffened by whalebone, it began with three rounded bands, followed by alternating diamond-shaped patches of velvet and rabbit fur separated by a red stripe, and finally there was a kind of bag terminating in a cardboard-lined polygon covered with complicated braid. A network of gold wire was attached to the top of this polygon by a long, extremely thin cord, forming a kind of tassel. The cap was new; its visor was shiny. "Stand up," said the teacher. He stood up; his cap fell. The whole class began to laugh. He bent down and picked it up. A boy beside him knocked it down again with his elbow; he picked it up once again. "Will you please put your helmet away?" said the teacher, a witty man.


Gustave Flaubert


#caps #hats #headgear #humor #misfit

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.


Sister Parish


#awkwardness #bear #been #being #called

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.


Roman Payne


#artists #awkwardness #bizarre #clumsiness #good-art

He paused at the bedroom door, shut his eyes, took a deep breath, and walked right out like it was any other morning, and he and Jack would be having breakfast as if they hadn't had sex the night before. "Morning," he said, casting a quick glance over his shoulder. "Mmm," D grunted. "You done in the bathroom?" D blinked. No, I jus' took a little breather in the middle a my mornin' beauty ritual ta come out here 'n' chat with ya. A course I'm done.


Jane Seville


#jane-seville #sarcasm #beauty

It was a little awkward walking behind his mom when, about eight hours ago, I had been rolling around on the floor with her son with my shirt pulled halfway up my back.


Katie Kacvinsky


#love #love

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.


Ninon de L'Enclos


#awkwardness #conquests #lose #men #more

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.


Joseph Addison


#bashfulness #mere #merit #without

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.


David Cameron


#each #edward #excruciating #heath #levels






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