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Dana Murphy
@manadurphy
part-time garbage person, full-time literary agent at @trellislit
Philadelphia, PA
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    Dana Murphy
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    Mar 31, 2024
    I was anxiety-knitting at the @Phillies game when the very delco guy (60s) behind me tapped me on the shoulder: “I just wanted to thank you. my mom would knit and drink beers and watch the phils too. The only thing missing is a cigarette in your hand. This was a nice reminder.”
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    Dana Murphy
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    Mar 31, 2024
    Replying to @manadurphy
    I will never forget the way he said “we kids would all go to bed and the next morning, well… the beers were gone but we’d have three new mittens.” I feel so lucky to love this city and this team, man.
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    Dana Murphy
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    Dec 8, 2019
    i speak to dogs as if they are babies and i speak to babies as if they are 47 year old divorcees
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    Dana Murphy
    @manadurphy
    Dec 26, 2019
    big christmas moment for me: confessed to my family that the vodka bottle in their cabinet has been mostly water for ~15 yrs and we dumped it out together
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    Dana Murphy
    @manadurphy
    Sep 27, 2023
    strikes work, this new contract slaps, and now every creative industry has a baseline upon which to build their own AI protections thanks to the WGA's unfuckwithable stamina and faith. solidarity forever, unions forever.
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    Dana Murphy
    @manadurphy
    Sep 30, 2023
    girl fieri
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    . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁
    @popcultureshub
    Sep 30, 2023
    Florence Pugh is seen during the Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 as part of Paris Fashion Week.
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    Dana Murphy
    @manadurphy
    Oct 19, 2019
    [billie eilish voice] I’m the baaad goose ..... HONK
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    Dana Murphy
    @manadurphy
    Sep 23, 2024
    well the @Phillies organist played ‘please please please’ after the first inning so good to know everyone here is on the same page
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    Dana Murphy
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    Mar 28, 2024
    you girlies really just leap at the chance to do gender essentialism as a treat every damn time, huh like I know I’m a feral bitch with a lack of general life skills and a bevy of truly good men in my life so I always feel alienated by these convos but please I beg you GROW UP
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    ember loves bay ridge
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    Mar 27, 2024
    There are a lot of issues with The Cut story, but no one can argue this paragraph isn't true, and it is exactly how I explain why I have no desire to date again.
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    Dana Murphy
    @manadurphy
    May 14, 2020
    sorry everyone but i must log off work for the rest of the day because my husband spotted a groundhog in the overgrown lot across from our house so my only choice is to sit at the window until i too see the hog
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    Dana Murphy
    @manadurphy
    Aug 16, 2020
    Nothing is more exhausting to me than the moralizing of living in New York. It is not objectively magical because it is magical to you; it is not objectively harmful because it is harmful to you. It is just a place.
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    Dana Murphy
    @manadurphy
    Jun 24, 2024
    if you’re willing to skip the “hard parts”, you aren’t an artist — you’re a fraud who wants to know the feeling of having made art. grow the fuck up and be willing to fail at the thing you allegedly love so much.
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    Ayla Zuraw-Friedland
    @aylazeef
    Jun 23, 2024
    There have been a lot of arguments for using AI to help with outlining/transitions/the “hard” parts of writing but tbh I think it’s just as bad to eliminate the part of the process that forces you to think through the structure and weight of an argument !!!!!
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    Dana Murphy
    @manadurphy
    May 10, 2023
    Replying to @zackknoll_
    I mean, the bisexual lighting alone
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    Dana Murphy
    @manadurphy
    Jun 9, 2018
    I’d like you all to know that the best bagel store in my hometown (there are many) has reopened after many years (a maserati drove through it) and the first thing I heard was a perfect Long Island accent saying “it takes seven years to reopen and your fuckin’ door still sticks.”