Word: phoney
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...keep this short, because I can't stand phoney people who just talk and talk about things. And you have to sit there and listen or else they will think you are a jerk. I mean, that just kills me and all. Anyway, school started again a couple weeks ago, and all the reading is just so goddamn depressing. And my roommate, Stradlater, is just so oversexed and all he talks about is necking girls until I just can't stand it and have to go somewhere else. So I went to the bookstore to see if they have...
...enough father. I mean, yeah, she tries to make it all sound nice, and says she does not want to blame her dad for much, but then she goes on and on about how crazy she was and how her father didn't help. Ya know, I just hate phoney people, and Margaret just seems to be phoney about everything. She always talks about high school and middle school and her babysitters, and how damaging her father was to her mind. On and on she goes. She says her growing-up was filled with bulimia, panic attacks, chronic fatigue...
...managed to find a good husband, graduate from Harvard Divinity School and raise her son pretty good so far, although she never seems to talk about these good things, only the bad memories from her past. Not a bad life, I think, if she wasn't always so phoney and false and depressing when she acts like she doesn't blame father for her depression when she really does. She should just move on with her life, and stop whining so goddamn much to all of us. I mean, Margaret, it's never to late too catch the children...
...work. I've sharpened every pencil within a five mile radius. I've shaved, overeaten, cleaned my desk, showered, made tentative plans to someday do my laundry, and called all past and present acquaintances plus a few phoney phone calls because I'm such a cut-up. I am now ready to begin my studies...
...nation's top legal theorists. They're delighted to find a dean who doesn't speak out just because he likes to hear the sound of his voice, who doesn't pull punches, professionally or personally. "He's a non-bullshit fellow and non-phoney. That's not the qualifications of the deans I've known," Gunther--who calls his colleague-to-be a "bright light"--says...