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His public persona was crusty and a bit cynical—plus there was that dry sense of humor—but at heart he was always a romantic and could be a bit corny. He told me once that he kept that part hidden, because it bruised easily.
reminds me of my wayne
He argued in the essay that homoeroticism was the great engine of American literature—that stories of male bonding were actually stories of suppressed sexual desire. Bullshit,
LOL not stephen king sneak dissing all the homoerotic speculations of stand by me hahahahaha
Metafiction,
When he got to the other side he put down his gear, dropped his pants, and mooned me.
yeah but they didn’t have somewhat of a homo erotic relationship? lol mooning is so weird?
I remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible. I wanted to be a writer, but I was beginning to think being a good one was beyond me. If it was, the world would continue to spin. You relaxed your hand… opened your fingers… and something flew away. I remember thinking maybe that’s all right.
exalted
amorphous:
“You halt combustion before it can spread.”
lmao i love the way aliens explain shit bc true
Ephemera.
“When intelligence outraces emotional stability, it’s always just a matter of time.”
“Because of the noise in your lives. Because of your
thoughts. Thoughts are pointless. Worse, dangerous.”
axiomatic.”
Well, I tell myself, we call it a gift and we call ourselves gifted, but gifts are never really earned, are they? Only given. Talent is grace made visible.
nothing can give you what isn’t already there. This is axiomatic. I hold onto that.
Marriage is honesty; it’s also a repository of shared secrets.
amanuensis…
It’s all right to want what you can’t have. You learn to live with it. I tell myself that, and mostly I believe it.
Willie was in the Remedial because it allowed him time to think about more important things, not because he was stupid—but
aww :(
Jalbert would love you to get drunk, he thinks. Get drunk and do something stupid. He goes into the bathroom, pours the whiskey into the toilet, and flushes it away.
YAY GOOD DANNY
The trouble with the old bastard, Corinne thinks, is that he still gets a kick out of life, and people who get a kick out of life take a long time kicking the bucket. They like that old bucket.
not but not necessarily but still funny lmao
Back goes first, pecker goes last, everything else in between, his own father used to say.
lmao good to know
Frank doesn’t move, just stands there with his mouth open.
ofc. spineless
In the dark, Sandi Wilson smiles.
???? she’s gonna kill him? she evaded getting killed by him? idk. good job lol
He thought a person’s skin was thinner in the small hours. It didn’t start to thicken again until five, when the first light began to show in the east.
prosaic
Some people have worse luck. We did our best with what we were given.
He wanted to discuss the serpentine legal trail that lay ahead, but I had my own serpents to worry about.
bars
clients before you unveiled the ad campaign they’d come to see—and then led with two lies followed by the stone truth.
so what andy said was true lol. you can’t take the ad out of the man
ephemeral—struggled
It isn’t just grief that leaves scars. Terror does, too.
phlegmatic
“Over the teeth, over the gums, look out tummy, here it comes.”
cute
According to Jung, dreams of flying indicated the core psyche’s desire to break free of the expectations of others, or even more difficult, usually impossible, the expectations of the self.
Gravity is greedy for the dead and wants them in the ground. Just my opinion but others share it.
Love wasn’t the problem. At least not directly, although love played a part (as it almost always does).
Smart people labor under a dual disadvantage: they don’t know the answers they need, and they don’t know what questions to ask. Education doesn’t inculcate mental discipline. You’d think it would, but it’s often just the opposite.”
supplications.
