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Making yourself look bad in front of “girls.”
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On a phone, loudly .
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It felt like David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King .
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“As first impressions are the most important asset, that’s where we’re going to start first.”
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“I think about it synergistically.”
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“If I’m still married when I’m forty, I’m gonna cut someone.”
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Elegant violence on the TV.
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“I used to be a former FBI agent.”
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“I’m a little too patty-caked out.”
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Eating right in the Middle Ages.
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Here comes the weekend.
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Being nine or ten, I didn’t know about William Carlos Williams’s idea of a vernacular language, “the American idiom,” or here, the African-American idiom. I think I just thought wow.
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Superman!
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“Have you listened to the whole album?”
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In a nearby city, weeks and weeks ago, as I was walking down the street.
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“Can you write, like, all this knowledge down?”
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“Is this a restaurant?”
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Sunny LA.
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A veterinarian speaking, or a vet in the making.
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Some kind of -itis.
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Running lines from a play, or from an episode of Girls, or something.
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“Gimme a hot coffee.”
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In the aisle of cheeseballs.
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“Could you put your pen back in your journal, please?”
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Laser-focus.
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“Senior adviser, my ass!”
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“I never read!”
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“It’s a blizzard starting! I’m not kidding!”
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“Early Grey.”
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About the speaker’s social network.