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Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.


William Safire


#especially #exquisite #feel #flatters #i

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.


William Shirley


#dependence #disposition #drawn #eastern #flatter

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.


Stephen Sondheim


#dismiss #feel #flattering #i #i think

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.


Holly Near


#believe #day #first #handed #i

I don’t quite know how to respond to people who say that I dance like my genitals are on fire. I usually just blush and brush aside their flattery.


Jarod Kintz


#dance #flattery #funny #funny

Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history affects everyone.


Bauvard


#funny #humor #funny

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.


Henry Villard


#come #details #did #familiarity #flattered

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.


Leo Tolstoy


#anna-karenina #avoiding #flattery #gaze #love

Then, in the spirit of benevolence, "Your face is well balanced." She slapped him encouragingly on the back, "You have very long eyelashes. Like a cow.


S.U. Pacat


#fantasy #flattery #m-m-romance #balance

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.


Coco Chanel


#create #latter #numerous #rare #stronger






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