Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.
— Anneli Rufus (via jazzdaleks)
(Source: airplanes, via ohdelay)
02.05.12 | 21,037 notes | View comments
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GPOY FOREVER
exactly
Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You didn’t place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
— Jamie Raskin (via cora-crawley)
(Source: hell-inhighheels)
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Jamie Raskin
relevant
exactly
murrica fuck yeah
Don’t you know all writers ever talk about is their troubles?
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via tryhowandwhy)
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jesus christ so ACCURATE
Many people yearn for correctness and this is expressed in the phrase “standard English”. The honourable side to this is that it offers a common means of exchange. However, this leads many people to imagine that because it is called standard, it is run by rules and that these rules are fixed. I’ve always understood rules to be regulations that are drawn up in some agreed list. They are fixed (until such time as they are amended) and they are enforceable. In fact, there is no agreed list, a good deal of what we say and write keeps changing and nothing is enforceable. Instead, language is owned and controlled by everybody and what we do with it seems to be governed by various kinds of consent, operating through the social groups of our lives. Social groups in society don’t swim about in some kind of harmonious melting pot. We rub against each other from very different and opposing positions, so why we should agree about language use and the means of describing it is beyond me.
— Michael Rosen
02.03.12 | 1 note | View comments
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grammar nazis
grammar
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Grammar is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit.
— My flammable roommate’s fabulous writing professor (via commodore-sparklebutt)
(via lobectomy)
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this is perfect
