#nic

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I cook better than you," Nick corrected absently. "I think monkeys can probably be taught to cook better than you." "I'd like to have a monkey that cooked for me," said Jamie. " I would pay him in bananas. His name would be Alphonse." "I agree, that would be awesome." Mae said. "People would come for dinner just to see the monkey chef." "You're raving," Nick said, defrosting chicken in the microwave. Mae was a bit impressed with how he seemed to look at the appliance and instantly comprehend its mysteries, when she'd been heating up ready-made meals for years by a method of pressing random buttons and hoping. " I know that's the only way Jamie communicates with people, but I expected better of you, Mavis." "We're cutting out the whole Mavis thing right now, Nick," Mae said warningly. "How many bananas would be good payment for a monkey?" Jamie wanted to know. " I would want to pay Alphonse a fair wage.


Sarah Rees Brennan


#monkeys #communication

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?


Gabrielle Zevin


#memoir

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.


Nassim Nicholas Taleb


#intellectual-sophistication #internet #irony #nerd #nerdery

Well . . ." St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked.


Lisa Kleypas


#wicked #autumn

I wouldn't want to fuck you if you had a ten inch knob made of gold and your arsehole was the gate to Nirvana. I can't be friends with you because you're a gibbering twatwaffle, not because I would ever, in a million years, want to shag you. Get over yourself!


FayJay


#homosexual-panic #homosexuality

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.


Jenny Holzer


#cynicism #politics #cynicism

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.


H.P. Lovecraft


#cynic #existence #suicide #cynicism

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.


Peter M. Senge


#idealism #cynicism

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.


Dorothy Parker


#cynicism

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.


Colum McCann


#naive #cynicism