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The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole...

Quote by Douglas Adams about end, haven, moment, people

A love will tell you they love you endlessly. A true love will tell everyone else they love you endlessly despite the embarrassment factor.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement, and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be...

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about thinking, nothing, things, world, life

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the...

Quote by James Payn about excess, difficulties, literary critic, writing, man, being