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When the bill comes she takes possession of it, calculates her half to the last penny, adds ten per cent for service and pays me in cash from her handbag. I tell her in simulated outrage that I have never before encountered such barefaced
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High quality wit in courtship :)
“...if you aren't, at any given time, scandalized by code you wrote five or even three years ago, you're not learning anywhere near enough”
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“The rating agencies were not exceedingly competent”
― STRESS TEST
― STRESS TEST
“In Hidden Writing, a main plot is constructed to camouflage other plots (which can register themselves as plot holes) by overlapping them with the surface (superficially dynamic plot) or the grounded theme. In terms of such a writing, the main plot is the map or the concentration blueprint of plot holes (the other plots).”
― Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
― Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”
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“I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's”
― Prodigal Summer
― Prodigal Summer
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