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I guess my other advice is that it's really good to be comfortable among groups of men! It's just a very common work setting and I don't actually think about it too much, but there must be some comfort level that I've developed over the years.

Mitchell Baker

Men, Thinking, Years

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As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.

Eric Hernandez

Voice, Musician, Sound

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I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beautiful, Fun, Humble

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.

Michael Crichton

Taken, Clothes, Experience

Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.10, Vintage

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She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

Charles J. Shields

Skins, Approval, Negotiation

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Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.

Chuck Klosterman

Lying, Sleep, Past

Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.

Elliot Perlman

Sleep, Water, Wake Up

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Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?

Jeffrey Eugenides

Voice, People, Longing

Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.329, A&C Black

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There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.

Tao Lin

Mistake, Loneliness, Long

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It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Italo Svevo

Greatness, Belief, Latent

Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.12, Vintage

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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne

Comfort, Stories, Inherit The Wind

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Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Craig Thompson

Wanting Someone, Wanting You, I'm Sad

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...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.

Julia Child

Joy, Quiet, Missions

Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.17, Anchor

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Don't get too comfortable. It's not over until I say it is. -A

Sara Shepard

Liars

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Murder? You mean he's dead?" "No. He's resting comfortably," I said. "People always sleep best with their heads at a ninety-degree angle. He looks comfortable, doesn't he?" (Paige & Elena)

Kelley Armstrong

Mean, Sleep, People

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Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

Isabel Allende

Character, Grandmother, Care

Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.

Holly Lisle

Children, Cities, People

Holly Lisle (2009). “The Silver Door”, p.166, Scholastic Inc.

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It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

Taylor Swift

Love, Life, Relationship

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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Francis Chan

God, Trouble, Situation

Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.88, David C Cook

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She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.

Toni Morrison

Life, People, Needs

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It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future

Daniel Webster

Fall, Ambition, Fighting

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I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander

Janet Fitch

Play, White, Enemy

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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

Umberto Eco

Lonely, Generations, Lost

Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.

David Sedaris

Hate, Community, Hatred

David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

Bertolt Brecht

Dog, Morning, Book

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