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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. — Tennessee Williams
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. — Virginia Woolf
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed… — Martin Filler
The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs. — Geoff Mulgan
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and… — Azar Nafisi
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder. — Blaise Pascal
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding. — Joseph Addison
...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty. — James Redfield
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat… — Henry David Thoreau
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional… — Alex Haley
Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without… — Dag Hammarskjold
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would… — Bernhard Schlink
There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful,… — Gregory Peck
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl… — Robert A. Heinlein
I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I… — John Connolly
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact,… — George Orwell
It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it.… — Susan Sontag
Forgive me for speaking frankly, but after the past quarter-hour's conversation, I am unconvinced that any of you possess the sense or sensitivity to impart… — Tessa Dare
Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who… — Lynne Truss
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so… — Carl Sagan
It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of… — Rollo May

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