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5371ce4
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"I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?" "Look," I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything." "Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb." "Was it hard?" Annabeth asked."
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insult
humor
dumb
rachel-dare
percy-jackson
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Rick Riordan |
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030eaf9
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I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.
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weak
god
love
cruelty
dumb
lazy
fat
pleasure
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George Saunders |
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2a09ba9
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"What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett. "My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B."
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mnagement
dumb
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Connie Willis |
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1c067f1
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Watching hours of television seemed to help, but it took brainpower to be so dumb.
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television
flunk
klub
dumb
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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a309045
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...You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.
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men
confusing
deaf
guys
jek
refuse
soup
dumb
boys
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Robin Hobb |
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397964a
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Either Ault was a lot harder than my junior high had been, or I was getting dumber- I suspected both. If I wasn't literally getting dumber, I knew at least that I'd lost the glow that surrounds you when the teachers think you're one of the smart, responsible ones, that glow that shines brighter every time you raise your hand in class to say the perfect thing, or you run out of room in a blue book during an exam and have to ask for a second one.
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struggle
intelligence
classes
college
academics
dumb
school
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Curtis Sittenfeld |
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38295de
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"Falderson," he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, "is as stupid as the day is long." He craned his neck to gaze up at the hradani and shook his head. "In fact, he's even stupider than I thought. You, sir, are the biggest damned hradani-no offense-I think I've ever seen."
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stupidity
humor
hradani
humours
large
day
tall
long
dumb
stupid
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David Weber |