(Source: act-of-insanity)
When someone is self-deprecating is not a signal to kick them when they’re down, so to speak. It is a concession to your argument or opinion and a signal to stop being an asshole.
People Configuration, 1/25/12
Cafe Flore
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Martin Luther King Jr (via xandurr)
p. 100, Infinite Jest
- 1: Beat. Worn the heck out.
- 2: Worn the fuck-all out is more like.
- 3: Wrung dry. Whacked. Tuckered out. more dead than alive.
- 4: None even come close, the words.
- Stice: Word-inflation. Bigger and better. Good greater greatest totally great. Hyperbolic and hyperbolicker. Like grade-inflation.
- Hal: Hyperbolicker?
- Stice: My daddy as a boy, he'd have said "tuckered out''ll do just fine.
“The familiar panic at feeling misperceived is rising, and my chest bumps and thuds. I expend energy on remaining utterly silent in my chair, empty, my eyes two great pale zeros. People have promised to get me through this.”
Hal, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, p. 8
“I’m glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility.”
Nikki Giovanni (via wisdomorganic)
