“I want to hang a map of the world in my house then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve travelled to. But first I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.”
—Mitch Hedberg
June 2012
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“Star fucker,” in this context, definitely should have taken the hyphen. See how, with the hyphen, the weight of the word comes down on the first half of the compound? Star-fucker. Without the hyphen, the word tips, giving equal weight to both nouns and turning the compound from an insult to a term of endearment. It is refreshing to see that readers have evolved along with the magazine.”
—Profanity in The New Yorker (via alexleo)
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Somewhere under the pulsing of late night aphorisms, punctuated by yawning, the veil of your justifications falls revealing the blushing bride of your own inadequacies and ultimately your own inescapable and interminable isolation, at which point you have little choice but to renew your vows.
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“Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.”
—Cyril Connolly
