"Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular."
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"I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days."
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"Adjectives are the curse of America."
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"I've got an adjective that just fits you."
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"The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'"
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"His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives."
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"Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them."
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"I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective."
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"When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers."
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"I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted."
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"I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress."
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