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Here are ten quotes to justify your laziness.

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The grass is always greener on the other side (of the pond).

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5. He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.

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The joke is as benign as the periodic announcement I make that I am straight for Steve Buscemi. It does no violence to gay people that Jeffrey Eugenides made a clumsily delivered tongue and cheek aside that sort of implies we would be straight if the opposite sex was hotter.

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“That guy’s gotta stop. …He’ll see us.”

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… In the age of Facebook and the constant need to be “likeable,” I suspect there’s a great deal that we (and writers/bloggers in particular) could learn from Hitchens’s contrarian example, lest we all turn into polite, vacuous, inauthentic zombies in the quest to amass as many “friends” as possible.

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Blab all you can about your sex life… Enrich the world with your own unique form of awfulness. For that — and kitten photos — is what the internet was created for. …Go forth, my winged monkey creatures, and blab.

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Henry James is an author that many people love to hate. The scars of reading James too early or too quickly––or reading the wrong Henry James altogether––can take a lifetime to heal, which is a shame, because his stories are some of the most memorable in fiction.