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"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
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insincerity
manners
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J.D. Salinger |
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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
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loneliness
kindness
friends
family
insincerity
pretense
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Edith Wharton |
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The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't--whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
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humor
truth
comedian
humorist
insincerity
belief
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John Updike |
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Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister--that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)
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moral-blackmail
insincerity
politicians
sentimentality
children
censorship
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Christopher Hitchens |
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Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.
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insincerity
sincerity
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T.H. White |