1703 3 2
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We love the sparkling, speckless, spotless, spic-n-span, sanitary.
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1703 14 11
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I visited the grave of Rimbaud. / It was pale blue
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1703 7 3
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In the Ardennes for the the first time...
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1702 8 4
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The house had to be clean - I mean thorough-clean - when he got home from the pit for his tea, or he’d throw his plate at the wall and the gravy would run down onto the carpet. There was always gravy.
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1702 4 1
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Each drip off the corrugated plastic sheeting made a tinny sound that he could hear from deep within the damp sleeping bag and layers of blankets where he was trying to sleep.
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1702 14 8
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In the gutter, the paper signs turned back to pulp.
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1702 3 3
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They came early and parked up, under cover of the night and the giant oak. I only know this because people told me afterwards. Watching us, they were. It was six o'clock before they smashed their way in, scaring the three of us out of our wits. Baby Billy screamed the place…
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It was a pleasant time, my thoughts were mostly good ones, with little effort wasted on regret.
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1702 6 6
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1702 9 9
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Our Irish tradition is rich in Yeats, drenched in Bushmills.
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1702 8 6
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the swan drives a car ( window down; wing half hanging out ) …
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1702 14 9
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I crave the confines of the convent
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1702 0 0
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Do not listen to Christmas music out of season. Unless of course you want to ruin Christmas music. Forever.
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1702 9 6
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he knows that his wife knows. she can smell the adverbs on his tongue in the mornings. but he cannot get through another evening in that house without consonants.
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1702 6 4
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It was a lover’s dark. They had been talking for hours when daylight lost interest and had gone elsewhere for sport.
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1702 16 16
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She’s witnessed her mother’s terror on the day of the hurricane, and she demanded for the first time in her life that her mother do something her mother did not want to do.
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1702 2 2
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Our Core Values define evil as the concealment of information. And those who conceal information are evil.
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1702 0 0
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Lulu Petite was sitting in a lounge chair by the side of the pool when she heard the man splash into the water, almost unnoticed by the guests milling around the backyard of the palatial estate. Everybody, seemingly, was involved in a balancing act of one
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1702 3 2
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my fingers vibrate magnetic/
a humming void/
where my brain was
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1701 8 7
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Co-workers have started calling him Jesus, Manson, Foghat, Doobie Brother, hippie, hipster, Grizzly Adams, Dude Lebowski... there’s really no end to it.
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1701 3 1
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Her dress swirled around her as she stepped into the ballroom, looking every bit as sultry as her recent Playboy cover...
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1701 4 0
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I’m not the creative type like my friend Bosely, an Irish Setter. I’m a traditionalist. I like to eat exactly at 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. I take my bone with me everywhere I go. I will not carry the poop-bag.
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1701 12 6
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I looked around in my pantry but there were no sentences I felt like cooking.
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1701 4 5
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On Soapography, two actresses are discussing
everyone’s personal heaven, and in another room
you can hear a woman who is your dead mother
combing her hair in a doctor’s smock in a dream,
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1701 5 0
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Flash’s hackles stood brushlike but he kept his head bowed just enough beneath the bigger dog’s stare to delay the inevitable fight. Flash, Mal thought approvingly, would pick the time and place.
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1701 0 0
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Sometimes he could feel so small he believed he could fit through the eye of a needle.
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1701 7 5
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words have their own ancestors,/deeds are commanded by their own lords./
knowledge and thought do not make me understand—/no surprise, then, that I am not understood.
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1701 0 0
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...Loves and fights and retires; / And dies.
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1701 0 0
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"Sorry, I need to confirm the results." Sal turned to Paul. "Is it true that you got stood up?"
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