This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which supposedly everybody now knows everything about what’s really going on underneath all the semiotic codes and cultural conventions, and everybody supposedly knows what paradigms everybody is operating out of, and so we’re all as individuals held to be far more responsible for our sexuality, since everything we do is now unprecedentedly conscious and informed.


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The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he s...
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LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the...
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Nel tennis il vero avversario, la frontiera che include, è il giocatore stesso. C'è sempre e solo ...
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Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict ...
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My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
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This wise old whiskery fish swims up to three young fish and goes, 'Morning, boys, how's the water?'...
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You want to know the story? I'd be happy to tell you. I think I have just enough caloric energy stor...
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Huh. Well you and I just disagree. Maybe the world just feels differently to us. This is all going b...
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Trying to be anti-cool is just one exponent off trying to be cool -- it's the same beast.
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Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a h...
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...you are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, ...
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The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picay...
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Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it
implicitly congratulates both it...
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This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your peopl...
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Lenore, it's simply that I love you. You know that. Every fiber of your being is loved by every fibe...
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Supongo que ser tímido significa básicamente estar absorbido por uno mismo hasta el punto de que s...
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If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and lov...
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Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men’s Room, does Sternberg, and strug...
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When something large and oncoming passed, the windshield's big rectangle was for a moment incandesce...
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I am fortunately an entirely handsome devil and appear even younger than twenty-nine. I look like a ...
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But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any real satisfact...
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Sometimes, when I don't think about it, I think I have just totally escaped the Bad Thing, and that ...
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If I’m hanging out with you, I can’t even tell whether I like you or not because I’m too worri...
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I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vu...
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JAY: No really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the... hood of m...
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The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.
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It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
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Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est.
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Il suicidio è così contrario a tanti nostri istinti e impulsi programmati che nessuno sano di ment...
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Blue Springs Memorial Hospital Palliative Care Unit, Independence, Mo.
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The truth is you've already heard this. That this is what it's like. That it's what makes room for t...
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It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others’ self esteem simply as a function...
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She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.
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It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way...
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...this was depressing, much the way discovering that somebody is easy to manipulate is always a lit...
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The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece...
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I don't think he was used to patients who were already aware of what their real problem was. He was ...
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The almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt had very nearly nothing left anymore of the delusion that he di...
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-when he thinks of the starry-eyed puerility and narcissism of these fantasies now, a rough decade l...
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*One clue that there’s something not quite real about sequential time the way you experience it i...
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Atwater knew — as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never sa...
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The reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I k...
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(..)-Dr. G. would later say that the whole "my whole life flashed before me" phenomenon at the end i...
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Even as I wrote my note to Fern, for instance, expressing sentiments and regrets that were real, a p...
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If I understand you right,' he says, 'you're saying that you're basically a calculating manipulative...
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It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function o...
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What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of wha...
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The truth is you already know what it's like. You already know the difference between the size and s...
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Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.
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You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours...
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When he smoked marijuana he tended to masterbate a great deal.
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I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit�...
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How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
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Here is how to turn down an extramural date so you won't be asked again. Say something like I'm terr...
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the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfi...
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You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness �...
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We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fac...
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per...
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The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.
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