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" When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Person
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" SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it. "
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" Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing - and speaks to an existential neediness typically reserved for failed actresses and phenomenally successful rappers. "
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" I always get super confused by the way we look at technology, because since when were all phone calls created equal? It's not like every text is the same or that all texts are human interactions that are compromised. I don't get how conduits somehow dictate sentiment. "
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" I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that track people's various rhythms. I'm no lifelogger or body-hacker, but I'm curious, and I want to be in-tune enough to know what's really the matter so I can level up and be at my most awesome. "
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" I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened. "
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" LaCroix sparkling water is absolutely delicious. "
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" Never post food on your Instagram. Nobody cares, and only old people do it. "
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" I suspect that living 24/7 in workout attire is the clothing version of the messy topknot. We all know that your hair is dirty, or too long, or too frizzy, or your roots have grown out, but we are all going to accept it as fabulous because that's the deal. "
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" Instagram is not a place for tone or irony. "
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" I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them. "
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" People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at. "
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" I love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian. "
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British
" I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled. "
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" You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes. "
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" Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle. "
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" Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories. "
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" I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday. "
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" I just love the comics industry. "
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" There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice. "
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" For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find. "
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" I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person. "
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" I've always been a texting advocate. "
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" Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger. "
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" 'Sorry' is unlike anything Bieber has made in the past. It has been classified as 'tropical house' and 'dancehall,' but everyone seems to agree on one thing: It's a banger. "
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" The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings. "
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" As a consumer, I love superheroes. "
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" I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you. "
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" I love my mother a not-normal amount. "
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" My brother's in comics. I work in media. "
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