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Jay Griffiths has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own
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All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling…
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Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is…
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We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and…
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A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.
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As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
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Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
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Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym,…
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I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.
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If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
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Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
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The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
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The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine…
— Jamake Highwater
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Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.
— Judith Martin
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Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human…
— Maria Montessori
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Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the…
— Bernard Pivot
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Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound…
— Jay Griffiths
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I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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In a mad race to nowhere,how many of us stop and look around ? And even the one who do,how many do…
— Unknown Author
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