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Public speaking is actually really easy if you don't respect a single soul in that room. I've had an incredibly easy time delivering speeches when I hated everybody I saw and they all thought I did amazing because my disdain was read as confidence. I don't have any tips for you I'm just telling you a fact

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hitting dorian gray with a car and he stands up completely fine meanwhile in his attic a painting flies off the wall and lands in a splintered heap

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wish this hadn’t become a meme bc like it’s seriously so insane & true like yeah being seen is excruciating

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i love when the “it is my god given right to remain miserable and take things personally. fuck you for making a post about the importance of drinking water. a bottle of dasani tried to kill me in the fourth grade” crowd and the “you guys are so stupid. you can actually cure every disease on earth with diet and exercise. no i’m not ‘lucky’ to be in ‘good health,’ i just take care of myself :) i have a superiority complex about this by the way” crowd start arguing. it’s a real unstoppable force v. immovable object situation

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a thought that’s haunted me all my life expressed coherently by others:

post from deactivated user / sylvia plath from the bell jar / jean paul sartre from the age of reason

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Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, how did you did that.

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human brain is so easy to manipulate its stupid. sun is out longer in evening = life is worth living...read some negative social media posts = everybody hates me...read one interesting article = i have the scholar's ambition

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Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin

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@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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basically the whole bible happens to me daily

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Thea stilton 👉👈

#MY CHILDHOOD #she made me into the academic i am today #we need a word more powerful than ‘mother’

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[at Achilles's funeral] Agamemnon: *places his hand on the pyre and sobs* Agamemnon: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

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Every time I hear people talk about satanic imagery or satanic propaganda I think about that tweet that was like, some people view Satan as a video game villain where he gets stronger the more people worship him

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Princess Zelda. Available as a postcard (with korok sticker!) through July here

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— Mary Oliver, Wild Geese