Every time you use the term 'elite' as a term of disapprobation, a peddler of class warfare gets his wings.

'the amount of money you need to say 'fuck you' is zero dollars, it's the 'fuck yes' that actually requires some cash' - Ray Doraisamy

Literally every time I read a book I’m like “wow, this is exactly what we’re going through now”

4yo will tell us “don’t look at me, I don’t want you to see me while I get more candy”

“I am convinced that most readers, when they think that they are admiring poetry, are deceived…, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.”

Housman

Matt Bateman Snurpeling = the stage when a newborn is still small and snuggly and likes being swaddled

Fjungler = the early teenage stage when you're clumsy and forgetful

Grumpsk = preteen stage when you're moody and brooding

Update: help I’m eating so much bread

“Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.”

Stoppard

Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Morns abed and daylight slumber
Were not meant for man alive.

Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover;
Breath’s a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey’s over
There’ll be time enough to sleep.

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