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"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them."
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defects
dislike
education
hatred
misunderstanding
propensity
repartee
retort
wit
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Jane Austen |
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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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isolation
lies
loneliness
misunderstanding
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Rudyard Kipling |
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We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.
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kindness
misunderstanding
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Natsuki Takaya |
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How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.
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illusion
life
misunderstanding
personality
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Kevin Brockmeier |
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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misunderstanding
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L.M. Montgomery |
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The text has disappeared under the interpretation.
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misinterpretation
misunderstanding
subtext
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.
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misunderstanding
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L.M. Montgomery |
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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misunderstanding
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Zora Neale Hurston |
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In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.
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language
misreading
misunderstanding
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Ian McEwan |
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He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.
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intensity
misunderstanding
river
ruination
water
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E.M. Forster |
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"Elgin himself looked ten years younger, now that he'd cast the die, but I thought exuberance had got the better of him when he strode into the saloon later, threw The Origin of Species on the table and announced: "It's very original, no doubt, but not for a hot evening. What I need is some trollop." I couldn't believe my ears, and him a church-goer, too. "Well, my lord, I dunno," says I. "Tientsin ain't much of a place, but I'll see what I can drum up --" "Michel's been reading Doctor Thorne since Taku," cried he. "He must have finished it by now, surely! Ask him, Flashman, will you?" So I did, and had my ignorance, enlightened."
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literature
misunderstanding
trollope
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George MacDonald Fraser |
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And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know.
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misunderstanding
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Alice Munro |
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Very often, people embarking on such guesswork make the vulgar assumption that the lower the motives, the more likely they are to be authentic.
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misunderstanding
motives
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Christopher Hitchens |
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"Let them judge you, but remain virtuous. Let them criticize you, but remain wise.
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criticism-quotes
guru-quotes
hate-quotes
judge-quotes
kind-quotes
kindness-quotes
life-lesson-quotes
life-lessons-quotations
life-lessons-quotes
life-quotations
life-quote
life-quotes
life-quotes-and-sayings
life-quotes-inspirational-quotes
matshona-dhliwayo-quotes
misunderstanding
sage-quotes
virtue-quotes
virtuous
wisdom-quotations
wisdom-quote
wisdom-quotes
wise-quotations
wise-quotes
wise-sayings-quotes
wise-words-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of ale and wine and rare meat. Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia. But he said I wasn't able to go, nor able to stand it after I got there; and I did not make out a very good case for myself, for I was crying before I had finished. It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. Just this nervous weakness I suppose. And dear John gathered me up in his arms, and just carried me upstairs and laid me on the bed, and sat by me and read to me till it tired my head. He said I was his darling and his comfort and all he had, and that I must take care of myself for his sake, and keep well.
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irony
love
misunderstanding
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if it were not a religion but a compendium of funeral conventions.
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death
funeral-rites
funerals
misunderstanding
religion
religion-meaning
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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I agree. I don't understand how a guy everyone is terrified of makes me feel safe. I don't understand how a guy who stayed behind to protect me when he didn't know me has been shot. I don't understand how a guy who carried me out of an alley full of shattered glass is the enemy everyone is warning me about.
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katie-mcgarry
misunderstanding
protecting
sacrificing
young-adult
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Katie McGarry |
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"Now it happens that both master and man have just enough argument on their respective sides to make it difficult for them to understand each other. The Negro dimly personifies in the white man all his ills and misfortunes; if he is poor, it is because the white man seizes the fruit of his toil; if he is ignorant, it is because the white man gives him neither time nor facilities to learn; and, indeed, if any misfortune happens to him, it is because of some hidden machinations of "white folks." On the other hand, the masters and the masters' sons have never been able to see why the Negro, instead of settling down to be day-laborers for bread and clothes, are infected with a silly desire to rise in the world, and why they are sulky, dissatisfied, and careless, where their fathers were happy and dumb and faithful."
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misunderstanding
race-relations
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W.E.B. Du Bois |