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The museum’s catalog description changed much less than the painting over those years. He wasn’t curator-in-chief of catalog descriptions, however, that task went to a curator arriving by another door.
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160171
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I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that
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16011715
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I'm a lot wiser now but so what?
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160142
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Mama sleeps in bed with us. The blue of her ghost sleeps underneath me. I love her more than anything. What does she think when we are naked, when we yell, or mimic, imbibe, curse, cry, shake, make love, roll over on her, want to die?
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160121
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Hollywood is the land of the slow no.
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160143
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He puts on a choir of prepositions, 142 adjectives, 317 ramifications of cotton... and 177 semicolons engorged with cabbage.
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160162
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The water rolls gently this evening, barely touching my toes before retreating. The tide has been going out for over an hour and already there are several victims – crustaceans, spider crabs, minnows.
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160131
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It's Granny hauling her crooked soul into heaven. Guess who I stole that image from?
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1601125
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Can’t you do anything right?
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160151
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“What would you think if I committed adultery?”
She pauses very briefly before replying.
“What, you got time on your hands?”
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160011
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I am in the hallway, but I don’t sense it. That is to say: I don’t feel my body. I am like a phantom, a limbless entity floating, flailing.
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160032
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Chills begin on my hand where his cool lips meet my skin and ripple through me. I try to focus on the road and cock my eyebrow. “Not bad for a 15-year-old.”
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160066
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What she didn't tell me was that her brother Carl got fried during an electrical storm.
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160000
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“Monetising the mecosystem” Theobald blathered, “extend the value proposition, core competencies create cash rich commitment free conurbations…partnership models proliferate non essential services spawning new opportunity…” Peregrine tried to
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1600128
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Mayra heard the bell ring and opened the door to her small home in downtown Havana. Mayra was in her 50's and had the beautiful dark olive skin of most Cuban people who have a mix of Caucasian and Negro in their blood.
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160032
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The most beautiful possible thing is to deprive all places of their meanings.
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160084
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"This tastes like goat cheese," I said.
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160020
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A large crowd of students began to gather around the base of the building that housed the administrative offices, where my hearing was being held. The meeting room was up on the second floor.
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1599102
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I had no portent this would occur, /
Ne'er did I see this happening, /
Not days before, nor those coming;
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159932
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One night he woke up with Underdog laying next to him, breathing softly. He marveled at how fiction could make reality so much better.
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159955
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The white faces of the train look up in an attempt to satisfy presumption, smoothing out any interest into glassy eyed gestures toward looking but lacking the very important quality of sight.
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1599158
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Mostly, though, reiteration of the old/
in an idiosyncrasy that strives/
to become fresh and fails
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1599117
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She smacked his back a couple of times with the flat of her hand
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159933
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“What is the sickness that you have?” Colin behind the glass wondered.
“Too much world,” said Anise Fish.
“We have that in common.”
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159965
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52. they hate the word hate
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159962
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"What the fuck are you looking at, Carl?" She snaps, turning her head toward me as the truck edges off the road and into a field of tobacco, into those broad green leaves of ancient sacristy and modern ablution. This is not a blissful kind of field. It is not full…
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159944
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Sitting near her desk, like a dunce cap,
red
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159900
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Walking home, carrying his guitar case, Jed felt the sums of his life adding up to dangerously high numbers, the deadly inertia of vaguely comfortable apathy swallowing his time. His moment would soon be fading. Because, like many young men before him, Jed…
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A cult is one thing; it defies common sense that a commonly educated person cannot escape cultist thinking and belonging. That cult, A.A., is girded by police, fire, therapy, hospitals, insurance companies, and courts.
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