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A proper study of human history should
lead the student to an inescapable desire
to commit suicide
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1707138
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I worry for the daffodils/
and there optimistic yellow bursts./
I worry for the over-eager clover,//
prodigious green on crepe myrtles,/
even for the early green of nut grass.
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170722
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So it's me and two other girls...
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170722
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...you should pick a VERY OLD millionaire. Very old, and NOT VERY WELL...
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1707137
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Can we survive our Y chromosome?
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1707118
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He liked to take pictures of her, and she liked to pose. It made her horny, she said.
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1707136
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170765
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Q: What's the best song to sing to your doc before cataract surgery?
A: I Only Have Eyes For You
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1707119
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skin cancer
walks along Zuma beach
at noon
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170732
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He asked me if I was going to buy Valentine's for the office this year, and I shook my head. We were in the dollar store, February 13, and I could get a box of twenty kids' Valentines with last year's favourite cartoon…
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170765
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Cézanne sags during a moment of paint. There is an umbrella in the room whose surface collects his thoughts. Outside, in the rain, the grass and garden smell strongly of spring. Fruit litters the table. Light through the window writhes in conversation with shape and…
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17061113
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I was seeing the owl lady from time to time when I met Caroline.
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170643
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I'd never seen a dead person before, let alone one that was living just
seconds earlier.
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170632
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1706910
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it's time for the cold, antiseptic
cloth to briskly remove the evidence.
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170643
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Shadows from a star
Never too close
Never too far
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170630
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white-gray mounds persist
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170697
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As they lay in the pasture on a warm summer's afternoon, with the sky blue, the sun shining, he looked across at her, peacefully asleep by his side. How he loved her. Their year together had been one of joy and happiness.He idly nibbled on a blade of grass, remembering the…
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170631
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Warning: Open and read before making any dumb-ass New Year's resolutions.
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170677
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You've been given some really cruel thoughts that are not your own.You've been given some really stupid sets of rules which are impossibleto follow. You can learn to manage for yourself. Remember who youwere before they told you who you were. You've been trainedsince birth…
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170600
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I'm subconsciously a sucker for guys who are no good for my
self-esteem. Or waistline.
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170500
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Her fever spreads through lines of a plaid mini, over burnt milk, darkened to yellow. Fingers explore fabric folds up and into the lost dimensions of logic.
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17051612
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She was as beautiful as flowers in a dream
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170500
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I met Barry Hannah once in my life. I’d come to Oxford, MS, to meet an entirely different writer whom I thought then and think now very highly of. I’d also come to escape from another slew of regrets. Oxford is a great city to run away to.
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170545
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The last time Cyrus rode in a train’s passenger car, he came home a dead man.
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170565
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So few dreams are the doors they seem.
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1705189
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170500
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Their faces covered in shadow, smiles so relaxing, a tall woman approached her, gently rubbing her face. Her lips moved with no sound, but Sora subconsciously understood what she said.
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1705104
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Come, bring your sadness
to the precipice of my body,
bury it within me like a tool
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170544
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“Gladys Miller!” the dog shouted. “Live a little. TiVo it.”
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