Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William S. Burroughs

Tag: jack-kerouac reserve

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The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the language, which lends itself to graceful expression even when dealing with fairly basic subjects.... And there's that famously elegant subtitle from a classic Western.
COWBOY: "Gimme a shot of red-eye."
SUBTITLE: "Un Dubonnet, s'il vous plait."
No wonder French was the language of diplomacy for all those years.

Peter Mayle

Tag: diplomacy intimacy reserve french-languange

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Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

David Kenyon Webster

Tag: war trenches reserve shells shelling

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I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Tag: humor love men women romantic romance sleep sex relationships funny sleeping intensity focus intense reserve not-romantic make-love word-junkies

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Inside I am really bursting with boyish merriment; but I acted the paralytic Professor so well, that now I can't leave off.

G.K. Chesterton

Tag: enthusiasm reserve

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Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!

Israelmore Ayivor

Tag: friendship friends trust food-for-thought intimacy courtesy door close companion reserve intimate narrow wide across trustworthy israelmore-ayivor bad-friends good-friends courteous door-post doorpost spread trusted

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