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- Nov 07, 2020
Perfect Quotes
Not everything has to be flawless to feel right.
These quotes look at perfection from several angles - admitting nothing is flawless, appreciating a product that finally fits, and even arguing the universe is perfect exactly as it is. It's a mix of humility and quiet confidence. For a lighter companion set, try Like.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don't know any author who'd try. And we write characters, not representations of groups.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said 'Deformed Man's Toilet,' that kind of thing.
- Both Parties
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't usually get a compound word where the first part is a slang thing and the second part is a rather ordinary or formal thing - they don't usually mix - but 'gobsmacked' is a perfect exception to that rule.
- Pet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Beatles were perfect. There's just no other way to say it. They were the perfect band.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The digitisation of money, the rapid expansion of internet access and, of course, the adoption of mobile phones have created the perfect conditions to make it easier, secure, and affordable to save, spend, give, and borrow.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020