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The three of us traveled seven hours that day and Al traveled as far in the service of finding the right tool for his writing.
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18761312
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He introduced me to key lime pie, and for this alone I would have loved him forever. It was an innocent time for me, and I was easy to please.
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18761814
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I become a lake, a river, a stream, an ocean that will one day be able to move anything, anyone.
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18761412
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At five o’clock in the afternoon, at five o’clock / in the afternoon
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187621
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She used to think of him as someone to entertain with charming lies, but things evolve in unexpected ways.
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1876108
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Wake up, stretch. Check the curtained windows for sunlight or
that dreaded grey frame that forces the covers to come back up
and the alarm clock to be set to ‘Snooze’.
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187533
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Hi, I'm Alexander Payne. I hate sex.
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187552
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They are really living (they)
say things they don't mean
. . .
Do not know what they say
Take the path without heart,
seeing the image
. . .
The moon rises above them
It does not move their blood
Nothing calls out to their blo
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187562
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And now its done! Five months read! This book is batoning in my head. Its eleven o'clock AM and hot as hell, even the breeze, billowing nets through the sliding screen adds sweat, cuts me down to size. I will needs again to…
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1875105
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1.There's a young woman in a nightclub seated next to a window out of which she watches the slow descent of snow, illuminated by strategic lights. She imagines herself falling with those flakes. Her friend has left her for the dance floor. The young woman is…
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187545
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Between the wars, I hung around in an air-conditioned room. It was tiny, and I was shoved to the back, but after living outside on another man's back for months of bullets and bombs, I welcomed the stuffiness. White paint kept close walls from reminding me of the trenches'…
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When she opens the door, I say hi and introduce her to my friend, a bottle of J.T.S. Brown. She laughs and tells me to come on in before I fall down.
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187563
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circa the early 90s, Buzz Aldrin and my father had been invited to a dinner at someone's house on Bainbridge Island and gotten lost.
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187400
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Remember the glass changing room just off the pool terrace? It's been replaced by a juice bar. Seems fitting, really.
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187487
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Megan beat up on herself later over the unsaid.
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187474
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her parents were gone they sat on the love seat side by side saying nothing the longest time
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1874117
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I am so happy to see winter almost gone
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187442
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The stern tone of the chairwoman made him miss his mother, the snap of her accusations, the sting of her belt on the backs of his legs.
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187433
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"Dad, I already told you about your wife. She’s not coming."
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18732614
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After each piece cancelled the other
the generals folded up their checkerboards,
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1873134
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. . . she didn’t bow her head.
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187332
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The sand felt warm, the way it usually was on Saturday afternoons in Seaside Heights; face down on the beach under a hot July sun that burned my back and shoulders
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Where seldom is heard
an encouraging word
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187332
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She was legally blind. He felt comfortable knowing she couldn’t see him very clearly.
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187353
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The summer everyone read Faulkner, I read Hemingway. Out of spite.
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187220
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A Vicious Deer
The man came across the hall to talk to us.
He was buying some paintings.
He had a white deer on a leash.
Fosca (our Malamute) said: “That's a vicious deer.”
She kept putting her paw on its shoulder.
I said: “You bet
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187200
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The year is 2110. The earth is no longer habitual for human beings. The oceans are gone, the sky is red and irradiated and the last vestiges of human civilian are located within the confines of massive barrier cities. For a century mankind has been at war
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1872118
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A friend of mine is killing me With all of her lies. If I die tonight, you can bet it's Because of her. A friend of mine Is killing me with those lit eyes like Twin pyramids holding up her rambling Blue skyline. Look I don't have to …
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187254
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Are you asleep? He says.
Wake up.
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There were one hundred titles on the list. One hundred books that could neither be assigned nor put on a recommended reading list.
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