Awkwardness Quotes - Page 3

• I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness in prose, I find I like the way translated texts can sometimes acquire awkwardness in the process of translation. There's a discordance translation can create which I think is sometimes seen as a weakness but which I think can be a really interesting aspect of the text.

  Katie Kitamura

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Mistake, Style, Easy

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• What people really want is not to make something funny, but to make something amusing - which, in many ways, is the opposite of funny. To amuse someone is to eliminate discomfort and awkwardness, kind of like a massage for the brain, while to be funny is to point out awkwardness and discomfort. Everyone thinks they want funny, but they really want amusement.

  Christian Finnegan

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the stuff that interests me. I don't necessarily think that comedy comes from a dark place, like you have to be a strung-out heroin addict. But I don't think it comes from happiness, that's for sure. It comes from frustration and suppressed rage, and wishing the world were different.

  Christian Finnegan

  Happiness, Believe, Dark

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because there's something incredible about the way that an out-of-tune guitar becomes part of the song on a record. I won't be precious and say it's part of the composition - that's nonsensica l - but chance occurrences are so crucial to what's distinctive. It's the fingerprints all over so many of these recordings.

  David Grubbs

  Song, Awkward, Chance

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think if anything, the fact that it's popular right now makes me go: "Well, I guess I'm going to start doing something else then in the next few years." I dunno, it almost feels hackneyed at this point. To start a premise by saying, "I did this awkward thing." But then again, awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy. Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, Awkward, Feelings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want to be part of. I talk a lot about the free fall, the moment in the scene where gravity takes over, and the beautiful awkwardness when gravity wins. Gravity is hilarious. Gravity always wins.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Beautiful, Fall, Winning

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away.

  Dov Davidoff

  Disappointment, Lying, Dating

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 22, 2011

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• It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

  Erin McKeown

  Song, Writing, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.

  Richard Russo

  Heart, Kissing, And Love

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.272, Atlantic Books

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• What do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with me? Would you have loved me?" Clary was very glad she had put her cup down, because if she hadn't, she would have dropped it. Sebastian was looking at her not with any shyness or the sort of natural awkwardness that might be attendant on such a bizarre question, but as if she were a curious, foreign life-form. "Well," she said. "You're my brother. I would have loved you. I would have...had to.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Valentine, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Use, Mark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.107

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• I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Shy, Inferiority

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.26, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Awkwardness gives me great comfort.

  Marc Jacobs

  Giving, Comfort, Give Me

  "Lost and Found". Interview with Amy Larocca, nymag.com. September 5, 2005.

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• Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Communication, Home, Heart

  Frederick William Robertson (1872). “Sermons Preached at Brighton: By the Late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ...”

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• Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked.

  Veronica Roth

  Nice

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• Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment.

  Alyson Noel

  Real, Names, Next

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

  David Levithan

  Order, Rivers, Paradise

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.68, Penguin

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• Much awkwardness ensued.

  Patricia Briggs

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.56, Penguin

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• I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

  Jane Austen

  Important, Situation, I Can

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.489, Wordsworth Editions

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• I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued.

  Patricia Briggs

  Giving, Athena, Members

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.56, Penguin

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• Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.

  Piers Anthony

  Warrior, Common Sense, Weapons

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Golem in the Gears”, p.288, Del Rey

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• They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now they share one. They hold each other in the tight space, making no excuses for it. There's no time left in their lives for games, or for awkwardness, or for pretending they don't care about each others, and so they kiss as if they've done it forever. As if it is as crucial as the need for oxygen.

  Neal Shusterman

  Girl, Kissing, Oxygen

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

  Charles Yu

  Three, Pieces, Dollars

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.219, Vintage

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• A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.

  Maggie Grace

  Beautiful, Kissing, Blow

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