Daniel Handler quote: "You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means."

I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to su...
DANIEL HANDLER

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we'r...
DANIEL HANDLER

Blank paper has always inspired me.
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I'm dumping the whole box back into your life Ed, every item of you and me. I'm dumping this box on ...
DANIEL HANDLER

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to pr...
DANIEL HANDLER

It's full of depressing details about the children's lives, ... and, I'm sorry to say, it's the long...
DANIEL HANDLER

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then fina...
DANIEL HANDLER

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies
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The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it tur...
DANIEL HANDLER

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be th...
DANIEL HANDLER

For most people, the two primary relationships they have are with their families or romantic ones. A...
DANIEL HANDLER

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dul...
DANIEL HANDLER

I don't know whether it's digital effects or if they trained a baby to bite through steel. I'm not s...
DANIEL HANDLER

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the direc...
DANIEL HANDLER

I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in k...
DANIEL HANDLER

Book thirteen marks the return of a reptile previously gone missing.
DANIEL HANDLER

I was interested in finding ways to do dark comedy that were actually dark and comic.
DANIEL HANDLER

People can expect poisonous mushrooms, ... And then only if they open the book.
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The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses word...
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A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among people who writ...
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And she has a fairly consistent political agenda. She's a baby, so individual liberty is a developin...
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Watch Your Mouth.
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A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is...
DANIEL HANDLER

For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the c...
DANIEL HANDLER

Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.
DANIEL HANDLER

They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this...
DANIEL HANDLER

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we...
DANIEL HANDLER

This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.
DANIEL HANDLER

Kristen is looking at me like I'm a plume of smoke in the kitchen, right before you yell fire!
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The idea was women on boats. Lifeline Cruises pitched itself to women seeking adventure, whether a d...
DANIEL HANDLER

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole lif...
DANIEL HANDLER

And then the third night was after we broke up, which was worth a million matches but instead just t...
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...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.
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who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.
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Twenty-six,” you said. “One for each day we’ve been together, Min.”Somebody oohed. Somebody ...
DANIEL HANDLER

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, an...
DANIEL HANDLER

I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.
DANIEL HANDLER

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.
DANIEL HANDLER

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to s...
DANIEL HANDLER

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it tur...
DANIEL HANDLER

You either have the feeling or you don’t.
DANIEL HANDLER

And this note was a jittery time bomb, ticking beneath my normal life, in my pocket all day firecely...
DANIEL HANDLER

How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like get...
DANIEL HANDLER

It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world.
DANIEL HANDLER

And the truth is that I'm not, Ed, is what I wanted to tell you. I'm not arty like everyone s...
DANIEL HANDLER

I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.
DANIEL HANDLER

I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. An...
DANIEL HANDLER

I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not someth...
DANIEL HANDLER

Ed, it was everything, those nights on the phone, everything we said until late became later and the...
DANIEL HANDLER

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.
DANIEL HANDLER

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.
DANIEL HANDLER

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.
DANIEL HANDLER

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemeter...
DANIEL HANDLER

Shit, I guess I already loved you then. Doomed like a wineglass knowing it’ll get dropped someday,...
DANIEL HANDLER

I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it th...
DANIEL HANDLER

How many happy people do you think there are in the world? Twelve?
DANIEL HANDLER

I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked," Errol said with a snort.
DANIEL HANDLER

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither h...
DANIEL HANDLER

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.
DANIEL HANDLER

I can cook anything.
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I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat...
DANIEL HANDLER

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it...
DANIEL HANDLER

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming i...
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I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind autom...
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I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
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I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a ...
DANIEL HANDLER

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the ...
DANIEL HANDLER

'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous in...
DANIEL HANDLER

The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wo...
DANIEL HANDLER

I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.
CHELSEA HANDLER

The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it'...
CHELSEA HANDLER

You can't fast-forward heartbreak, and you can't rewind love - and that's just one big b...
CHELSEA HANDLER

Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.
CHELSEA HANDLER

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do t...
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My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good...
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I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd l...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I never considered myself a supermodel or anything like that. I mean, I don't think I'm ugly...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.
RUTH HANDLER

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult ...
RUTH HANDLER

We're seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. 'Th...
CHELSEA HANDLER

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are ridiculous-looking - especially her. They're so strange and cha...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denia...
CHELSEA HANDLER

It was Valentine's Day and I had spent the day in bed with my life partner, Ketel One. The two of us...
CHELSEA HANDLER

Jennifer Aniston is one of the most down-to-earth, low-key people I know.
CHELSEA HANDLER

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
RUTH HANDLER

I'm a devilish kind of person, but I embrace it. I don't try to fight it. It's proven ve...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around...
CHELSEA HANDLER

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.
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Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else'...
CHELSEA HANDLER

The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.
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Anyone who's married to Mariah Carey - I'm pretty sure - doesn't have a great sense of h...
CHELSEA HANDLER

Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll ha...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I'm not trying to be a role model to kids, because I don't have any children, but I do think...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I do think about marriage, but it's not the end-all goal.
CHELSEA HANDLER

I cannot be Mary Hart - or even worse, Samantha Harris - and stand there with my hip out talking abo...
CHELSEA HANDLER

As the youngest of six kids, I grew up spending summers on Martha's Vineyard, and I was always t...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I think nudity is funny, especially when it's inappropriate.
CHELSEA HANDLER

I don't pretend to be a great interviewer; I don't even pretend to be good at my job.
CHELSEA HANDLER

I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.
CHELSEA HANDLER

If you talk about Lindsay Lohan for four or five days a week, you really can't bear to talk abou...
CHELSEA HANDLER

Have you ever been sued by a midget? It's not fun.
CHELSEA HANDLER

I started my own business because my parents had no dowry for me, and I was worried. I ran it from t...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be...
CHELSEA HANDLER

After discovering him in his threesome, I spent the next two weeks in bed suffering from a severe ca...
CHELSEA HANDLER

We went to a Barnes and Noble, where I picked up an unauthorized
biography of M.C. Hammer, and ...
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I had always dreamed of being a professional escort but never thought that there was any real money ...
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There are many ways to get to know someone, and my favorite is seeing them naked in Happy Baby pose....
CHELSEA HANDLER

Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jump...
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Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger...
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I don't like to overdose. Call me old-fashioned.
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Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the firs...
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I had to sit down and explain to [her friend] that AA was for quitters
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It's not the concept of marriage I have a problem with. I'd like to get married too. A couple times....
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We got to his place and it looked a lot like his personality. Just a bunch of space filler, nothing ...
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One of my girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern.
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I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.
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I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush sp...
CHELSEA HANDLER

Lydia was the kind of friend whom people referred to as a 'party favor' -- always fun to be around b...
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I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
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He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her...
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I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.
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Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours of the morning when he ...
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Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends lik...
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I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.
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I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his...
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My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and cal...
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Have you ever experienced a pain so sharp in your heart that it's all you can do to take a breath? I...
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At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbli...
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I'm a late-night host that doesn't want to be tied down by time or television or even hostin...
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I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looki...
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I'm actually a big fan of Kathy Griffin because I think she's really funny. I think she'...
CHELSEA HANDLER

When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything...
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Great guys exist. They may not be in the package you think you like, and they may not come when you ...
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Another thing I take issue with are people who take their dogs on "play dates," or even worse, peopl...
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I don't appreciate people who celebrate their dog's birthdays with "dog parties," and then invite th...
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They really like going to buy fresh roast coffee at cheap prices.
DAN HANDLER

Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink ag...
CHELSEA HANDLER

You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.
CHELSEA HANDLER

Men don’t realize that if we’re sleeping with them on the first date, we’re probably not inter...
CHELSEA HANDLER

Along with the 97 percent of women who can see, I have never been a fan of redheaded men.
CHELSEA HANDLER

Different beans have different characteristics. Each has their own character and you blend them to g...
DAN HANDLER

I'm really into the human interest thing. I really like regular people.
CHELSEA HANDLER

Fred Weinberger lent Mark the money directly and not to his company.
ROBERT HANDLER

I could tell the raciest things these women had ever been involved in was a co-ed game of Connect Fo...
CHELSEA HANDLER

My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definit...
CHELSEA HANDLER

Some people have a phobia of midgets. They're, like, scared of them. I have the opposite - I see...
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I once waited on a group of 10 people, and one guy collected the money from the check and tipped me ...
CHELSEA HANDLER

You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magaz...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I like to celebrate my life. I have a life that I'm really lucky to have, and so I want to make ...
CHELSEA HANDLER

You can't have friendships that aren't based on realness.
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I didn't really spend much time with anyone my own age during high school because I believed my true...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I was looking for something more personal and more stable and more fun.
DAN HANDLER

The next step for me is not 'The Tonight Show.' That's a job for Jimmy Fallon. I'm w...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I love Sandra Bullock. I think everybody loves her.
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I’m a murderer, Ted! I’m a murderer. A dog murderer! I’m just like Phil Spector minus the musi...
CHELSEA HANDLER

I hated Big. I hated everything about him and this story line. First of all, it didn’t make any se...
CHELSEA HANDLER

In true Ted form, he was not in on the joke, which is basically the foundation of our relationship. ...
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I wanted to kick Bruce in the taint. No one is just one thing. Many things contribute to the whole o...
CHELSEA HANDLER

There's a reason you never see anyone's house with a Beware of Cat sign. Because they're not even wo...
CHELSEA HANDLER

What about your constitutional right to bear arms, you say. I would simply point out that you don’...
CHELSEA HANDLER

It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choos...
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I've found that many of the people who have a passion for karaoke too often have misplaced confidenc...
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Vomit and feces are two reason I have decided not to procreate.
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Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single do...
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Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries...
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I had heard my brothers and sisters use curse words but had never dared use one myself in front of a...
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There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?&...
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I like being able to, you know, pack up and leave the country and hop on a plane and go wherever I w...
CHELSEA HANDLER

People are following me because they want to see pictures of me. So why is Instagram editing them?
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I don't think I'm a good host. I'm not a good host. I'm terrible at hosting. That...
CHELSEA HANDLER

We women have to stick together.
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I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were...
CHELSEA HANDLER

There's a difference between racism and people making a joke about something. There is true raci...
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There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I'm unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves ...
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If you're really looking to hurt somebody's feelings, just break up with them.
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I love your personality," I said with wide eyes and an open smile. I had used this look before when ...
CHELSEA HANDLER

Sometimes, Chelsea, I wonder, how you get by from day to day. It's a good thing you're so voluptuous...
CHELSEA HANDLER

He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defendin...
CHELSEA HANDLER

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be...
DANIEL BURNHAM

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information...
DANIEL GOLEMAN

A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even like...
DANIEL HUMM

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to ...
DANIEL BOONE

Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so ...
DANIEL HUMM

Everyone comes to live in New York because they want to achieve something, and for that reason, ther...
DANIEL HUMM

I think New York is truly unique in its singular combination of the quality of both the talent it at...
DANIEL HUMM

I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'...
DANIEL HUMM

You've got to listen to your guests.
DANIEL HUMM

Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects o...
DANIEL HUMM

If you are working with high quality products, you can elevate the flavors more by cooking it at a l...
DANIEL HUMM

I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonfu...
DANIEL HUMM

The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple te...
DANIEL HUMM

What people don't think about when they think about New York is this amazing farmland that grows...
DANIEL HUMM

I have fallen in love with granola, in life and at work. I exercise every morning, and then I have a...
DANIEL HUMM

I'm from Switzerland, so I grew up with great chocolate.
DANIEL HUMM

A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the ...
DANIEL HUMM

History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of hous...
DANIEL HUMM

Passion for what you do is essential to success in any profession. That passion naturally keeps you ...
DANIEL HUMM

My wife is from Chicago, and every time we go, I just love it. I love the restaurant scene, and peop...
DANIEL HUMM

I try to run so I can eat anything I want. I feel it's a luxury to be able to splurge on somethi...
DANIEL HUMM

You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

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You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

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