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Practice valiantly.
Practice venerably.
Practice vigilantly.
Practice victoriously.
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.
view. Absentmindedly
That is the manner in which I roll.
Every time he entered his study, he relived the time she had crawled under his desk, tucked his shoe-clad foot into her side, curled her arm around his leg, and slept. After he finished his work, he pulled her out from under his desk and carried up her upstairs to a spare bedroom.
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
Sometimes, the most graceful way to handle something is to be decidedly ungraceful.
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
Don't use language instrumentally
tersely. Then the line
He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.
I now knew a method of speaking and writing that - by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn't supposed to fail - sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.
By the power bestowed in me by the Ministry of Silly Underpants ...
I did absolutely nothing. Carefully.
I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.
I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.
He kissed her lustfully.
Mindlessly.
Senselessly.
controlled and survivable manner: And, of course,
like upending the whole table, running until her lungs burned and her insides retched. With little wind,
You switches a mean fanny round in a kitchen.
Act sensibly.
Act sincerely.
Act selflessly.
Act splendidly.
I am very efficient.
I try to be as efficient as possible.
Instruct gracefully.
Instruct graciously.
Instruct gallantly.
Instruct gladly.
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
Guide impactfully.
Guide impressively.
Guide intuitively.
Guide incredibly.
I am really Method-y.
You just put one foot in front of the other and 'opefully not in yer mouth.
One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.
I operate by the seat of my pants.
God, you tick me off."
"Well, at least I got you - "
"Don't even finish that statement!" I snatched up my socks and tights. Rolling them on, I hobbled on one foot. "Ugh, I hate you sometimes."
He sat up in one fluid motion. "Not too long ago, you were really, really loving me.
I put the words down and push them a bit.
The most effective way to do it, is to just do it.
Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.
Wisely and slowly; they stumble that run fast.
You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might.
Nice tights, I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.
She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.
He smiled and said, 'By loving you.
He levered himself upright and swung his legs out of bed, put both of his warm feet, into the strategically placed slippers, stood up, yawned, stretched and farted.
You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.
good at doing, but before that youGood-- Peter Thiel
Make subtlety obvious.
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
She thrusts hurriedly into your hand an extremely hot buttered roll, flashes out a tiny pair of scissors, snips off the second button of your overcoat, meaningly ejaculates the one word, "parallelogram!" and swiftly flies down a cross street, looking back fearfully over her shoulder. That
by. "And you want to have sex with me?" "No," she said in a sarcastic voice. "I thought I'd rip your shirt off and then force you onto the bed and make you watch while I fingered myself." Even
Passionately desired, graciously received.
Instruct instinctively.
Instruct intelligently.
Instruct imaginatively.
Instruct impressively.
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
If you would be pungent, be brief.
vigorously than she had intended at a pile of potatoes
A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.
Misbehave more beautifully; more often.
My method is to find a word with a gesture.
He felt, rather than saw, her chin lift toward him. But instead of pulling her hand from his grip and turning away, she tightened her own fingers and unceremoniously, unexpectedly, threw herself down the incline, dragging him with her.
Dragging him with her!
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Used gently, and without the touch of pain.
Instruct wisely.
Instruct worthily.
Instruct willingly.
Instruct wonderfully.
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can.
He spun out enough toilet paper to vandalize a house and carefully cleaned the seat.
Experimentally, silently, I mouth I love you ... No one hears, no one sees, but the tree falls in the forest just the same.
It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.
I did it the stupid way, through trial and error.
A thousand ways. Focus on the one way.
Don't manipulate, articulate!
How can you contrive to write so even?
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
with the passion that she had pent
Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.
I'm very pragmatic.
Without leaving his armchair, without even touching her with his fingertips, he ordered her to kneel down in front of him, take him and caress his sex until he discharged in her mouth.
His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
I supposed that when anyone accustomed to working with the mind is faced with a straightforward action, there's a tendency to embellish, to make it overly clever. On paper there's a certain symmetry. Now that I'm faced with the prospect of executing it I realize how hideously complicated it is.
How do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Say nothing at all for months on end, then kill me dead in three sentences?
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.
carefully negotiated his way
Not too fast," called Raoul. "Let's not scare anyone."
"His majesty said with all deliberate speed!" chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare.
"That's how we're doing it," Raoul told him. "Deliberately.
A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in full what the writer has to say
Mrs. Jaffee a little earlier. I asked if he was escorting Mrs. Jaffee. "Certainly," he said virtuously. "She is my client. What's that noise you're making?" "It's something special," I told him, "and takes a lot of practice. Don't try it offhand. It's a derisive chortle.
The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
punctiliousness - in
She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.
The best technique is none at all.
I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.'
Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles.
Unpunctuality is a vile habit.
The wrong thing the right way.
By Odin's Hairy Arse!
He paused, then, on a whim, arranged the unconscious Falleen in an undignified postion
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.
Simple, like uncarved wood.
it with their fingers out of my hands,
Literally. Unlike most people, even allegedly educated ones, he used
I didn't know dirty words could be done that artfully.
I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.
Accordingly I set off thus:
dangerously polite.
You're contumacious.
That's the best part. The how.Part-- Jessi Kirby