3106 44 36
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if you whisper your truths, they'll disappear
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3105 12 4
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The decision to wage war on terrorism gave to terrorism its political legitimation.
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3102 3 1
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This book is for those who have learned that sex is one of life's unpleasant experiences--like paying taxes, or renewing a driver's license--that does not become less painful through repetition.
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3101 3 1
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It amazes me that with everything this woman has to be depressed about, what really gets her down is an inadequate lounge chair.
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3097 18 11
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Let’s face it, there are simply too many things too know these days.
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3096 54 29
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She says, “Put it there now.”
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3091 39 31
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On the ground deputies comb the back roads. Border Patrol scouts from the air
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3090 5 6
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You were like a delicate lace
that barely mentions the wrist.
But you were also at your best
with strings attached.
Let me say this. If innocence
is supposed to be so overwhelming
as to do nothing on purpose,
not carried away by sensatio
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3089 7 5
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She died in a car crash yesterday. She was driving down Hawthorne, past the strip mall with the Benihana’s, when her ’05 Corolla unaccountably careened over the center meridian and into oncoming traffic.
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3089 12 7
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It's an easy thing to take out an eye.
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3086 22 11
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Fault and blame can be forgotten after three steep flights of stairs. Pregnant-lady-take-the-elevator kind of steep. I-said-elevator, holy-shit-she’s-falling kind of steep. A-faked-relief-when-the-child-is-born, but-born-special kind of steep.
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After the affair was over, she told her husband she’d been smoking. Obviously he didn’t know, but he knew. One can never hide the fact that one has been smoking.
He said he could smell it on her.
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And aren't we are so then so rarely The hero in another's story When we want to be. And why are we so always Rounding stories on the heroes Who don't want to be? And aren't we are so then are so rarely Heroes in each others' …
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3082 33 31
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She was a dead bird the morning I found her, wings clipped in dirt and blood vanished into tiny braille maps on concrete.
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3082 7 2
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In the kitchen they discovered the instruments. A flute under the sink tucked behind a rusted silver pipe. An oboe on the floor in the pantry. And a violin across the ice tray in the freezer, now dark.
"Not ice," sister said, holding it up by the neck.
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The dying rose spoke to the wood
That kept in it's heart a love of good
And all that was in bloom
It could not let that happy rose
Fret about in terrible death throes
Would not be its tomb.
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3079 8 3
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They should have shot me when I turned 80, a bullet right between my sunken eyes.
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3079 29 13
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My round belly is deflating. I disappear a little more by the day. It's been weeks. Soon, I may not even be here.
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3077 0 0
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All through their descent sequence K’var had nervous premonitions.
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3075 14 10
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...what will happen to me buying drugs on the street, at night...?
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3071 29 11
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...her touch held such wisdom that it put babies to sleep...
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3071 17 10
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Eli the dog cocks his head like a pistol;
half cock, full cock.
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3071 34 17
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Don’t rub me out now, not tonight. Or if you do, do it right.
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3071 4 1
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As I sat down finally, finally to write,
some brooding heretical hour of the night, with my ballpoint in hand, poised to blot page, Time gathered momentum, although I did not age...
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3069 53 26
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"Look," he said. "Look at the knife. See how I hold it?"
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3066 3 1
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My name is Mandy and I'll be your narrator today. I'd like to welcome you aboard. You will be reading at the approximate speed of one hundred words per minute. Total estimated reading time will be about fifteen minutes. At this time, I'd like to point out several of the…
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3062 0 0
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BLIND-SIDED 1 The humid night air clung to Julio's skin as he and Marco stepped off the bus near campus, laughter trailing behind them like the smell of esquites from the street vendor across the road. The political rally had been noisy and full of energy - and…
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3057 21 16
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I arranged all my books before you came, /
so that it appears I read some more than others.
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3056 5 2
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“Skip the obsequies,” he said. He meant “flattery” but he’d been taking a “30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary” course.
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When Uncle Dan got sent to the Alzheimer's ward, the ladies licked their lips. Fresh meat.
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