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  • Great writerly in-jokes, (onionskin paper, for one), and a hearty fuck-you to those who dare to carp about what they can never grasp, it supersedes genre toys to achieve world-class architecture even while maintaining the clearest voice I've seen since Hemingway, Vonnegut, or Harper Lee.

    "Grow till tall. They all, in the end, will fall." aliceoddcabinet 2010

  • It dawned on me that maybe what transfixed me about Senegalese men's style was a certain fuck-you attitude toward clothing, a can't-put-your-finger-on-it othernethat conveys humor and that people might aptly describe with the overused term, "hipster."

    Maya Lau: Senegal's Accidental Hipsters Maya Lau 2011

  • I invented foreclosures, the tack of pointing fingers, the means to fund for a fuck-you bender.

    Ready For Processing J. Bradley 2010

  • I was in a jam: if I wore my costume, it would be a big fuck-you to my country.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

  • Jesus, every time I think I'm desensitized to the media's cynicism and stupidity to the point where nothing they do could shock me anymore, they pull a truly inspired fuck-you out of their hats.

    Chez Pazienza: ABC News to Redeem Guy With No Redeeming Qualities Chez Pazienza 2010

  • It seemed like pure defiance to the cards he'd been dealt, a symbolic fuck-you to cancer, and I gotta admire the heck out of the guy for it.

    How I'll Always Remember Dennis Hopper 2010

  • You have to figure that he probably has a contentious relationship with his crew anyway, because he has fuck-you power with that nose of his — and has to be jaded.

    The most awesomest Christmas post ever | Johnny B. Truant 2009

  • What K-R did to its papers, to those papers ` readers, to its local journalists, to the Web environment they all once graced, and finally to itself, was a coast-to-coast fuck-you.

    Mainstream media: killing the past 2009

  • There were other hallmarks too: a love of heavy metal music, drugs and alcohol, and a ‘fuck-you attitude’ that was both playful and genuine.

    DIG IT SKID! The Nag 2009

  • Jesus, every time I think I'm desensitized to the media's cynicism and stupidity to the point where nothing they do could shock me anymore, they pull a truly inspired fuck-you out of their hats.

    Chez Pazienza: ABC News to Redeem Guy With No Redeeming Qualities Chez Pazienza 2010

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