We’ve grown suspicious of feelings, particularly the big ones needing the eruption of a ! to relieve ourselves.
FLORENCE HAZRAT
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The exclamation point attracts enormous (and undue) amounts of flak for its unabashed claim to presence in the name of emotion which some unkind souls interpret as egotistical attention-seeking.
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