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"...the rules that govern it, are not the result... →
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What the Secret Service could learn from drunken... →
If I were a single gay man
drinkyourjuice:
looking for love in New York City, I’d just stand in the West Elm at Columbus Circle with a confused expression on my face, because four of the most beautiful men I’ve ever seen in my life have separately asked me if I need help while I hold shams up to this quilt and whisper, “Nightmare. This is a nightmare.”
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Eliminating Words from the English Language →
We asked readers to propose a single English word that should be eliminated from the language. The nominations piled up, in the hundreds and then the thousands. People who like words, as it turns out, also hate words. Superfluous adverbs took a beating: people unloaded on “literally” and “actually.” One woman challenged anyone to think of a case in which a deleted “actually” changed the meaning...
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Werner Herzog’s Note To His Cleaning Lady →
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“You constantly revile me with your singular lack of vision. Be aware, there is an essential truth and beauty in all things. From the death throes of a speared gazelle to the damaged smile of a freeway homeless. But that does not mean that the invisibility of something implies its lack of being. Though simpleton babies foolishly believe the person before them vanishes when they...
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