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A proper study of human history should
lead the student to an inescapable desire
to commit suicide
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Start now. Make lists. Call long-lost friends. Say what needs saying. Raise hell.
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perjured like a fickle impulse
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We all//
fall short and fail.
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old men with crispy sunburnt ears
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On the Nightly News a pedophile in an orange jumpsuit does a sashay of shame in front of a wolf pack of cameras and satellite feeds that surround the downtown courthouse. At the bar, a woman with big blonde hair and a rhinestone manicure says off with his head. A…
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It’s not the money. The money’s/
just a way of keeping score.
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He stared at the mirror, his hair looked chewed up–severed by a miniature lawnmower.
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We wore cowboy hats and jeans in the pictures. They both came off once his camera disappeared.
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Liz didn’t steal his heart / she embezzled it
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But THIS is what happens when you collect genuine reviews. I began with a list of 50 of the greatest books of all time, according to the compiler of the list, and then went to a list of some of the worst best sellers in recent history, [scroll down] and t
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The one he liked best was a middle aged woman who didn't wear underwear. She had a terrific figure.
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My wife thinks I should be committed.
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She's at an artist colony in the state of Virginia. She's in her studio. She should be writing. That's what everybody thinks she's doing out here. Why else would she be in her studio alone at 3:00 a.m.? But there's an interloper. A new painter? Sculptor? Maybe he…
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A flash in seven chapters.
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He played real good
But never looked
At no one
Strong guitar
Weak knees
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The snake was fang-less and so had to choke her, making the kill bloodless and drawn out, just the way she liked it.
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I'm sitting here listening to Nebraska and it's / breaking my heart
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I get what you want done from me. You want the old one two sucker punch that goes straightaway through to the tenderest part of the aching heart, the one that tumbles you out of your old worn out gut wrenching way of living life for…
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We were in the car more than anywhere else. A few days driving, then a few days to get back home.
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It felt like I was somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be, like I’d walked into a house that looked like mine, but belonged to someone else.
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Try it with and without/
middle name or middle initial.//
Try different keywords.
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My heart hurts as I miss you here./This was your intention, I know./
And nor is my reaction unique.
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I attended the burial of our affair when I found her notebook— maybe it should be called her diary—that she had foolishly left on the deck of my beach house where she stayed while I was on that short trip to Chicago. Numb at first, unsure how to proceed, I went…
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Falling//
is something that comes quite naturally/
to puffed up things. Like the soufflé
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