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• There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Apology, Occasions

  "The Rambler".

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• We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

  Barney Frank

  Names, Values

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• If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Succeed, Members

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

  Richard Steele

  Silly, Men, Opposites

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• It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Mirrors

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.34, Xist Publishing

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• I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.

  Daniel Dennett

  People, Good Questions, Asking

  "Dan Dennett and the New Atheism". Interview with Julian Baggini, www.philosophersmag.com. March 2010.

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• Right, then, mate, terribly sorry for my unspeakable rudeness, and I do beg your pardon. I can only say that it was caused by my natural affront to the notion of her as my sister. Since I'll be shagging her tonight, you can imagine how I'd be distressed at the thought of rogering my sibling" "You shmuck! The only thing you'll be shagging tonight is yourself!" "You wanted sincerity, well, luv, I was sincere.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sorry, Sibling, Tonight

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• Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

  Stella Gibbons

  Manners, Cold Comfort Farm, Commit

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on.

  Robin Wasserman

  Moving, Grace, Weakness

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• Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.

  Florence King

  Knowing, Mediocrity, Singers

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

  Rick Warren

  Say Anything, Want, Purpose Driven Life

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• Rudeness is what gets to me [when someone being rude to me in a supermarket]. Yeah. That one does get to me, I have to say.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Doe, Yeah

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)

  George Eastman

  Children, Unyielding, Faces

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• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Jobs, Accomplishment, Perfection

  "The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.

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• We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Parent, Generations

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

  Lois Lowry

  Father, Lying, Knowing

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness

  Charlaine Harris

  Yankees, Legendary

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1764, Penguin

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• A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.

  Ishmael Reed

  Careers, Perfect, Black

  Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

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• I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Girl, Intelligent, Arrogance

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• Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled

  Leila Aboulela

  Regret, Sensitive, Not Worth It

  Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a malady titled, 'Artistic Temperament'... rudeness, excuses, slovenliness, laziness, clutter, addictions, non-commercial attitudes, un-professionalism... and a good reason for failure.

  Jack White

  Art, Attitude, School

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• Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Art, Men, Oasis

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• Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

  Edward M Hays

  Money, Simple, Expression

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• Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Arrogance, Complaining

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• Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.

  James A. Baldwin

  Clothes, Sorrow, Important

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