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“If she can’t use your comb, don’t bring her home.”
I took this as..."If the girl you're dating isn't black...Don't BRING her home to meet me!"
“Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.”
― One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
― One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not so... You would expect that proofreaders and copy editors would pick this sort of stuff up even if the writers of such embarrassing English do not, but many of them seem as illiterate as the writers they are trying to bail out.”
― Danse Macabre
― Danse Macabre
“A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”
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“Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.”
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Veronica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Veronica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
598 books
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79 friends
957 books
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1 friend
3 books
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109 friends
101 books
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253 friends
35 books
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13 friends
34 books
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35 friends
6 books
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296 friends
458 books
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49 friends
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Chick-lit, Children's, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Suspense, Spirituality, and Young-adult
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