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• When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. — Norman Mailer
• I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. — W. E. B. Du Bois
• I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on… — Robert Lowell
• For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get… — Chris Rock
• When a society is criticised by outsiders, its members wince but shrug their shoulders. 'What you can expect from strangers?' is the… — Michela Wrong
• I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word… — Roy Blount, Jr.
• There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman
• Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like… — Mark Haddon
• Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the… — Emily Dickinson
• The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward… — Jodie Foster
• A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is… — Samuel Johnson
• The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own… — Graham Greene

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