Words

This is a page where I will store:

• words and phrases that I like: the ones that roll off the tongue pleasantly and create a desirable interpersonal reality. With explanations, because I'd rather you know.
• nuggets of wisdom and madness that I've picked up from various people, alive or dead.

I know I'll need to sort through this at some point but for now, chaos reigns.

Here we go, nuggets:

Uppers

• "Emotionally sound people are intellectually flexible" - Albert Ellis
• "To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing" - Raymond Williams.
• "Democracy values everybody equally even if the majority does not" - Baroness Hale
• "Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail" - John Donne
• "Be as you wish to seem." - Socrates
• "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." - Blaise Pascal
• "Nothing's ever lost forever, it's just caught inside the cushions of your couch" - Amanda Palmer

Downers

• "Nothing will save us — the thing, the practice, the product, the relationship, the career. There’s momentary relief and fantasy, but ultimately we need to submit to death every day." - Kate Berlant
• "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." - Thomas Mann
• "Last night I dreamed that you led me into a place inhabited by a spider the size of a man, and that we spent the rest of our lives watching it in terror." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• "So much life advice is people describing what worked for them and not realizing that it's basically a study with n=1" - Michael Hobbes
• "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" - Michael Corleone, Godfather 3.
• "It is no measure of mental health , to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" - Krishnamurti
• "Procreation today is the moral equivalent of selling berths on a sinking ship." - Les Knight
• "Sometimes in a frustrating situation the most enlightened thing to do is the opposite of what you are doing now." - David Burns
• "The lies told by writers are not untruths; they are merely not real." - Alberto Manguel

Other

• "Three kinds of people in this world. There's white people, there's black people and then there's my people" - Baby Huey
• "This is my neighbor’s favorite song, whether he likes it or not" - FuriousNinja, comment under a music video by The Strokes; original author unknown

Words and phrases that I like

A-Z. Some are explained in brackets.

• bailiffs [bay leaves]
• bitch unparalleled [from Homer's Illiad]
• cat [soup ladle]
• cattle [kettle]
• chow time
• dickwasher [dishwasher]
• hinterlands [suburbs]
• i am not uncertain [when you're 100% certain but won't say it; from TV show Billions]
• i couldn't say [when you damn well could but you won't; from one of K. J. Charles romance novels]
• i make a disaster! [extra loudly and with an Italian accent; picked up from Matteo at my first and only cafe job]
• i'm all gas, no breaks
• flag shagging [engaging in patriotic festivities; picked up from an online forum]
• foxen [foxes]
• fragrance ejaculator [reed diffuser, according to Perch]
• it's against my religion [useful for absolutely anything I don't want to do]
• evergreen
• lady blowjob [like a blowjob but for a lady, you work it out]
• Mcfuck [Mo-Du]
• my mind and spirit are as one! [from Big Trouble in Little China, can be used when people want you to say something but there's nothing to say]
• my own wisdom transcends your vulgar mutterings [from a computer game, can't recall which]
• narked [annoyed]
• no shit, Sherlock [duh, congratulations on working out the bleeding obvious]
• nostalgia noose [something you're only holding on to because of nostalgia]
• oh brave new world that has such people in it [with sarcasm; from Shakespeare's Tempest]
• pigs [figs; picked up from a confused Eastern European market trader]
• porks [forks; Perch came up with this one]
• pray the gay away
• pyjaks [from Mass Effect, an insult]
• Remain lettuce romaine lettuce, a Brexit joke
• sheps plural of sheep
• suspicical [having a tendency to be suspicious; Perch thought this one up]
• standard! [but of course; picked this off Rose]
• that's why we can't have nice things [when something gets broken or otherwise ruined]
• the crow is black but the snail sips slowly [useful as an answer to absolutely anything; Perch came up with this and had me convinced it's an ancient Korean proverb]
• those crap things are really nice
• ummmmmmmmmm.....no [stretch it out for a bit, can preface with 'let me think'; learned from my brother]
• unknown
• wack [piss poor, crap]
• word [that's true/I agree/+1]
• you go, girlfriend

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