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my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right
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The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.
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Truly animals are some of the most numerous creatures of earth
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'respectively' is such a good sentence modifier. it allows you to define lists in parallel and zip them
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They Have Slept in the Forest Too Long (1926) Max Ernst, oil on canvas
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Gussie Fink-Nottle would do fucking numbers on this site
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David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film
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Maxfield Parrish - "The Young King of the Black Isles" (1909)
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jury-rigged. even keel. by the board. three sheets to the wind. loose cannon. son of a gun. pipe down. taken aback.

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Thank god you asked chat gpt, I was worried you'd google it and read through sources yourself
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People who try to copy historical writing styles don't say enough weird stuff in them. I'm listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was "I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter".
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''what if my writing isn't good eno--'' what if it's a reflection of your soul. what if it has a place in this world. what if you write it anyway
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it's kind of crazy how many physical books universities have. like i'm pretty sure a lot of them go just untouched for years at a time. but they're just waiting there for the right obscuritan to come along. like cinderella
#i used to walk through the stacks gently tearing up at the sheer beauty of everything stored there#the sheer amount of attention and care and thought tha those authors put into their work. humbling. human.
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Woah mama the guards are distracted. I'm going to escape Vegas finally. I'm free hummina hummina hummina
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is how the Aubreyad begins.
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