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Shut Up and Play Your Deep Thoughts

Yeah, they're still coming to me...

By Kendall Defoe Published 3 years ago • 1 min read
Shut Up and Play Your Deep Thoughts
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Misery balks Company.

Seeing a Tasmanian devil or roadrunner for the first time is always disappointing for fans of Warner Brothers cartoons.

When the Terminator said, “I’ll be back,” the officer on duty should have said, “I’ll be Beethoven”.

We jerk chicken and pull pork. Should we really be surprised by what happens to the occasional sheep?

To thine own self be true; you can lie to everyone else.

If at first you don't succeed, suck harder.

I have Enemies with Benefits.

Did Achilles ever act like a heel?

The only bands that never sold out are the ones you never heard of.

Just because you are a bookworm doesn’t mean that you will be a social butterfly.

He knew...

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Kendall Defoe

Teacher, reader, writer, dreamer... I am a college instructor who cannot stop letting his thoughts end up on the page. No AI. No Fake Work. It's all me...

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    Written by Kendall Defoe