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Familiar Quotations

Inelegancies – "Awkward"

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.–Edward de Bono

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.–Harold Coffin

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.–Ralph Waldo Emerson

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.–Ernest Hemingway

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.–Helen Keller

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.–Thornton Wilder

Inelegancies – "Clumsy"

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.–Edward Forster

Inelegancies – "Coarse"

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.–Cyril Connolly

Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization.–Constance Rourke

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.–Henry David Thoreau

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Inelegancies – "Awkward" 1
• Inelegancies – "Clumsy" 1
• Inelegancies – "Coarse" 1
• Inelegancies – "Crude" 2
• Inelegancies – "Graceless" 2
• Inelegancies – "Rude" 2
• Use in Literature 4
• Inelegancies 4
• Inelegancies – "Awkward" 7
• Inelegancies – "Clumsy" 7
• Inelegancies – "Coarse" 8
• Inelegancies – "Graceless" 8
• Lexicographic Usage 10
• Index 17