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The man who plays his flute every day under the archway near Powell station is not very good. He never plays a real tune, just a series of random notes. There is no rhythm or melody either. In fact, it's not even a flute he…
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178910
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"I always disliked such display of religious fervor. I dislike religious fervor. Period."
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178974
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The officers carried him away in cuffs as he yelled "I NEED STATS! PLEASE! JUST GIVE ME THE STATS!"
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178977
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When God blessed creation, a ewe gave birth to Adam. When he cursed Satan, Eve hatched from a crocodile's egg.——In naming the animals, Adam marked them for death. His own name was a slow fire. Eve's was an inferno.——In the shelter of the Tree of…
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1789103
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Melinda said forget the kegger last night, what we’re about to do will help you figure out whether you want to apply here.
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1789167
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Under nervously flickering fluorescent lights / your name will grow / fed by the tongues of Those Who Never Leave
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178921
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I kept a journal
for so many years
I've forgotten
everything I wrote.
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17897530
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Joaquin Phoenix has inspired me to quit writing and purse my true lifelong passion.
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178920
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My apologies also for those crowded roads you and your families have to drive on. My generation would have built more public transportation but, in all honesty, we just didn't give a damn.
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178842
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‘Didn't you used to have a daughter?'
The tense and phraseology jarred, but he was inarticulate not ignorant, awkward rather than unaware of how it sounded and she smiled at him.
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178821
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I remember ...all the teenagers offered no-longer favored CDs, last year's cell phones, third-place trophies, team jerseys, played-out videogame cartridges, and candy-colored miniature stuffed animals...
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178832
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So I’ll wait for her to clear all burden from her head and feel the ocean move us. Stand up, walk over to me and kiss me as we glided through open water.
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178800
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Beautiful,
a country left abandoned by the parade path.
The soldiers that typically occupy this place,
temporarily removed to neighboring lands;
congregating together,
backs to the native.
I benefit from the accidental diversion.
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178873
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Susie watched the record, her mouth agape just slightly, the spinning vinyl unveiling the powerful sound of a voice she'd wanted to hear her whole life.
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178812
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It distresses me that you will never lust after me /
the way you did for that girl /
who had her hands around your belt
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178811
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The closed door swallowed up both voices, and all I could make out afterward were muffled pleas and angry answers that died completely.
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178864
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A junkyard Bison seems an odd choice over the usual dog, but it did the job--trampling trespassers, vagrants and unautorized salvagers with a violent and admirable efficiency
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178765
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He was a beautiful older man, late sixties, who reminded me of a movie star with a thick mane of silver hair parted neatly from left to right and eyes the color of that stretch of Pacific Ocean between San Pedro and Catalina Island, the calming blue of a carefree weekend…
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178722
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in cinematic snippets, ten-second scenes of twelve Sons …
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178773
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The one thing my father told me that I want to believe is true . . .
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178731
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Your place is extra.
No it isn't.
It is, baby.
The man was as aroused by her discomfort as he had been annoyed by her laugh. She wasn't laughing now.
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178774
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You can use your shoelaces or an Ace bandage. Loop a belt around your neck and toss the loose end over a shower curtain or closet pole. Pull. Try to lift yourself off the ground.
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178753
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He was corporate then, young, his wife gorgeous, the collar flipped up on his twill overcoat, a lit cigarette in one hand, the other around his wife’s waist. They stood outside. It looked chilly. She wore a hat. He looked bulletproof.
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1787129
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We've talked often about that night, where six hours of our life disappeared, about our shared experience, and the big question of why.
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178700
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His thought was shattered then by the horrible grind of the telephone in the hall. Surely not for me, he thought. One of the other tenants has a friend who’s landed vipivka, no doubt after 39 straight days of hunt. Booze is so damnably hard to find
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178784
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He had become an accessory to a murder.
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17871110
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Someone will labor to keep it alive/
although the body will want but/
to return to random particles
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178774
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They had been wintering on the Cape under gunmetal skies...
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