Krakauer - Into the Wild

I'm sucking the marrow out of life but I am really weak at sucking I am sucking like a baby kitten lowkey so I am not getting much marrow

I spoke too softly for the Amtrak cafe attendant. Turkey sandwich and diet coke, please. She did not understand for she could not hear me. She began concentrating power in her fist in preparation for some sort of attack. I returned to my seat empty handed

They don’t even open your heart in “open heart” surgery.

Tell me muse, of a complicated man, maybe showed early promise, went down a few rabbit holes & didn't really accomplish much, but turned it around in his thirties and created great work. Please.

the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.

"You dicks, what the fuck were you thinking," the mayor began, according to Smyrniotis' complaint. "You make some kind of secret agreement with Italians… You are out there measuring your dicks with the Italians seeing who's got the biggest dicks."

"You are out there stroking your dicks over the Columbus statue," she continued. "My dick is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest dick in Chicago."

I've failed to read rooms I was alone in

I welcome the designations of Pornhub, XVideos and Stripchat as Very Large Online Platforms. It will allow for higher scrutiny and accountability of their algorithms and processes. The DSA demonstrates once again that it is an essential tool to ensure that technology respects the fundamental rights of European citizens.

Margrethe Vestager Executive Vice-President for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age

The stripper may not love me, but she doesn't need to. Her love for me is not a precondition for my love for her. She is an instance of all humanity, which I love unconditionally.

I hate when it's too idyllic out. Golden hour hues, temperate weather, young people, first dates, freshly bloomed leaves that haven't known the depths of winter. Yuck.

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