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“Are you okay? Did that dickwad do or say something out of pocket to you?” Her eyes slid open. “Dickwad?” she murmured. “Have you been watching Animal House or some other raunch com or something from the eighties? Or the nineties?”

Book:Fake It Till You Bake It

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“This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teenage mouths are the hotbeds of slang, and its most natural environment. Some years only sounds would erupt: everyone saying "WOMP" to each other, because they liked the way it moved in their heads and echoed in their ears, big and rubbery and round.”

Teen Teenagers Slang

Book:American Mermaid

Source: American Mermaid

“There would be another, less formal tribute to the best of the 1972 series: the name [Phil] Esposito eventually found its way into Russian street slang. Apparently, whenever a luckless Russian hooligan accidentally burns himself on the stove or cuts himself on an unexpectedly sharp knife he winces and shouts out the worst curse imaginable: Esposito!”

Words Curse Hockey Russian Slang Phil Esposito

Book:Hockey Night Fever: Mullets, Mayhem and the Game's Coming of Age in the 1970s

Source: Hockey Night Fever: Mullets, Mayhem and the Game's Coming of Age in the 1970s

“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.”

Language Words Censorship Slang Racial Slur

Author:Percival Everett

“When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words: 'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning prayers in your house?' 'I am sorry... I fear not.' 'You see where you are now!”

Religion Compassion Empathy Oscar Wilde Self Righteousness

Book:Recollections of Oscar Wilde

Source: Recollections of Oscar Wilde

“The slang 'Educated Fool' might be discovered by the Educated Society but mostly use by the Fools.”

Fool Educated Slang

Author:Md. Naeem Aziz

“The default digital world tone is one of hyperactive friendliness, artificial empathy, emoji-based validation, dopamine-rich feedback loops, toxic positivity, and veiled cruelty. They assume communication is always good, that speaking is a virtue, and that interaction is life. Because they know nothing.”

Internet Social Media Digital Interaction Modernity Normality Slang Artificiality Internet Culture Digitality

Author:Sov8840

“Shakespeare used the word 'flush' to indicate plenty of money. Well, just remember there was only one Shakespeare, and he was the only one that had a right to use that word in that sense . You'll never be a Shakespeare, there will never be such another— Nature exhausted herself in producing him.”

Humor Nature Money Shakespeare Slang William Shakespeare Flush

Book:How to Speak and Write Correctly

Source: How to Speak and Write Correctly

“The miracle is life, time and nature, three sacred gifts, ends with 'e'.”

Life Inspirational Philosophy Moments Wisdom Time Religion Spirituality Positive Thinking Miracle Sacred Natue

Book:Think Great: Be Great!

Source: Think Great: Be Great!

“شاید قدرت انسانی ذہن کی اڑان وہاں تک رکھتی ہے، جہاں تک اس جہان ناتمام میں ممکنات کی حد ہو۔”

Limits Possibilities Natue

Book:Parizaad / پری زاد

Source: Parizaad / پری زاد

“When people talk about how fast children forget, how fast they forgive, how sensitive they are, I let it go in one ear and out the other. Children can remember and forget and totally freeze to death the people they don't like.”

Children Forgiving Is Not Forgetting Reactions To Abuse

Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow

Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow

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