“Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners. In twenty years, they’d have country houses and children with pretentious literary names and tennis lessons and ugly cars and liaisons with hot young interns. Hurricanes of entitlement, all swirl and noise and destruction, nothing at their centers.”
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“When you keep people waiting they begin to think of all your flaws.”
“you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time”
“Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.”
“The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.”