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“106 more miles,” she said.
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165400
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Her shoes, left uninhibited below, seem sad but understanding, and she is so in love with something, which makes me so in love with the idea of her.
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16542016
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The night before his mother's teeth began chattering.
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165443
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What follows is an interview George Bush gave to Barbara Walters in 2006. He came off like something out of a swamp. Dick Cheney made them deep-six the tapes and we never saw it on prime time. I got the transcript, however,…
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Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
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“If Sir would observe, the storm welt, a shoe for the big occasion, a shoe that will guide sir through the dismal passages, a shoe that will roar in the face of adversity and …”
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We'll all face the raging river, some sooner than others.
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The man had decided that this was going to be his last day. He’d find out one final thing and he’d be done. He had spent the last few years of his life unwinding things that had been wound and untying knots that had been tied.
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165441
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"His middle name is Valentine, and when asked about it, he isn't sure why."
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165400
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Nurse Smithers straightened Dr. Baumgartner’s feathered head dress. it had slipped down below the caduceus so carefully painted on his forehead by the medical ritual staff.
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The combined smells of ocean breeze, grilled cheese sandwiches, incense and sweat and burning herb that wafted over from Shakedown, along with windblown notes from tinny car speakers all rolled into a potent sensory cocktail he hadn’t tasted in far too l
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165441
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On our back porch, the tiki torches are lit and so am I.
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I want to ask him why not now, right here on the living room floor when Rosie is out for the day. Instead, I suggest Sunday afternoon. I can make grilled cheese sandwiches and we'll eat them on the veranda. I'll take off my tennis skirt and unbutton my...
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I’m trying to get this said, this piece of fact. If I am a person who can own something, then that something that I own is not me, not me as a person. I do not own my foot, my foot is my own. It’s like a whatsit, a semantic distinction I’m trying to
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The universe will fuck you over in the end./
That’s what it does, what it’s good at—
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From my place, down here amongst the earth, we have many names for you.
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The universe extracts no retribution./
It annihilates without a thought/
of evil/good, sin/virtue.
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Jojo dolls & basketballs
a mindflex & pick-up sticks
Parcheesi and—no, not Parcheesi
a supersoaker, a Care Bear
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What did it mean? What would a psychologist say? Oh, who cares. In my opinion, we ask why, what, when, where, and how too often.
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. . . he wants to organize society into its most efficient configuration with everyone thinking alike and willingly cooperating. Only then, he believes, can humanity reach its full potential.
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165353
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It was midnight. I was outside the cottage, digging another row of star-shaped holes for the shrubbery.
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165353
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under your skin the moon is alive
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165354
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we gave divided houses / child stand up anyway
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I imagine you in the States,
pushing stacks of work papers and our memories
to the side, sense your enjoyment that
you won’t see the worry of your
behavior reflected in my eyes again.
That you can buy and bang and be
whomever you want,
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16531312
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The service was a disaster. The Protestants bobbed up and down. They didn't know when to stand, when to sit. I
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165311
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On that balcony, on every other day, she practised her other, more worldly religion - gardening, specifically sunflowers.
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children love to push the gas up and down my limbs
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We will collapse in a storm of images
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the swarthy terror network
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