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“If you ask what is one of the ten countries where you can take the king of photos, I would say India!”

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Mehmet Murat Ildan is a renowned Turkish writer born on May 16, 1965. His works span various literary forms including novels, essays, and poetry, and have gained widespread popularity among readers. more

“I hadn't met a lot of openly queer people before. There'd been a crowd of people at school who Pip hung out with with from time to time, but there could only have been about seven or eight of them, max. I don't know what I expected. There was no particular type of person, no particular style or look. But they were all so friendly. There were a few obvious friendship groups, but mostly, people were happy to chat to whoever. They were all just themselves. I don't know how to explain it. There was no pretending. No hiding. No faking. In this little restaurant hidden away in the old streets of Durham, a bunch of queer people could all show up and just be. I don't think I'd understood what that was like until that moment.”

Pride Queer Durham Queer Community

Book:Loveless

Source: Loveless

“[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)”

Competition Selfishness Cooperation Alturism

Book:The Meaning of Human Existence

Source: The Meaning of Human Existence

“All languages are composed of dead metaphors as the soil of corpses, but English is perhaps uniquely full of metaphors of this sort, which are not dead but sleeping, and, while making a direct statement, colour it with an implied comparison.”

Soil Corpse Dead Metaphor

Book:Seven Types of Ambiguity

Source: Seven Types of Ambiguity

“The fact that metaphors can sleep and wake is both bad news and good news for speakers and writers who want to avoid mixed metaphors. The bad news is that when a metaphoric word or phrase is sleeping for us, we probably won’t notice if we use the word or phrase in ways that are inconsistent with its source-domain meaning.”

Dead Metaphor

Book:Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse

Source: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse

“Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB— 'Taking Care of Business'— sounds like a reference to bathroom matters.”

Humor Science Song Elvis Presley

Book:Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Source: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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