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Jack Kerouac

(1922—1969)

U.S. writer

I'm a Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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be out to

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writers block

[writer's block] {n. phr.} A condition of being unable to write; a period when the words just won't come. * /One of the more common problems writers occasionally experience is […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

John Kendrick Bangs

(1862-1922), writer I can't tell a lie--not even when I hear one. www.english-slang.com

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"very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and ephemeral than ordinary language" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary) - learn ~600 slang expressions

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an expression "whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements… or from the general grammatical rules of a language"

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Franz Kafka

(1884-1924) Lawyers: persons who write a 10000 word document and call it a brief.

IKON

[IKON] "ikonBoard, also spelled as IKN"

creature of habit

[creature of habit] {n. phr.} A person who does things out of habit rather than by thought. * /Our boss is a creature of […]

out of town

[out of town] {adv. phr.} Having left one's usual residence or place of work on a longer trip. * /"Mr. Smith is out of town […]

matter of record

[matter of record] {n. phr.} A fact or event that is kept officially as a legal record. * /If you are convicted of speeding […]

screw around

[screw around] {v. phr.}, {vulgar}, {avoidable} To hang around idly without accomplishing anything, to loaf about, to beat or […]

R.B. Cunningham-Graham

(1852-1936) in letter to Teddy Roosevelt, 1917 God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses.

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