2828 38 14
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2826 11 9
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So, as the lines on my face grow more pronounced, the lines on my finger prints are fading away?
All I can say is that it's a damn shame it's not the other way around.
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2825 5 2
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“I’ve gotta take a break from this,” Hector said. “I’m not feeling inspired right now. I’ve added about a thousand words. Why don’t you look it over and put your changes in?”
“I can do that,” said Martin. “Impressive! That brings us up to nearly sevent
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2824 32 24
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sorry I didn't inform you
(missing cap)
about my trip to Spain,
(comma splice)
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2822 8 6
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I looked around the room at the shit, the dog bed, the dish. Lights burst behind my eyes, knees weak. “Fuck…” I bent over and puked.
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2822 25 20
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The diagnosis was peculiar, the doctors agreed, / but so was the condition
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2817 28 20
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It's so nice
to be under something else's power
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2817 7 3
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2817 6 2
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The first time we fucked my face was squashed between a seatbelt buckle and the right-side door.
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2816 11 5
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I weighted her so she would be suspended in the water. Sometimes late at night I would go down to the edge and listen to her bump against the filtration system. The sound she made was soft and low like a strange drum.
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2815 36 16
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I looked at it awhile waiting for it to cool. She said, "Ahh, go on! - Go on, go on.”
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2814 3 1
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“She’s in shock,” I heard my mom say, so I assume Jill must have asked how I was or why I wasn’t crying. I did not want to talk to anyone or have anyone talk about me, so I just watched the trees go by as we drove back home.
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2813 30 9
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2813 13 7
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As soon as I pull into my father's driveway, a light goes on inside the condo. I don't have to wonder what he's doing up this time of the morning; he's always had a knack for knowing…
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2812 30 21
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She slouched on one hip, scribbled on the order pad. “How do you like your eggs?”
“I like them very much.”
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2811 2 1
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You find a wall to lie down against and focus your eyes on an orange light. You no longer hear any music. You are lying down at the bottom of a dark, green, filthy pool, holding your breath and looking up at the sun.
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2809 26 21
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They didn’t run out of each other’s ink.
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2809 4 2
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yoo evva kizza rabid atween da erz? end chee siz NO end din yoo siz yoo wanna kizza rabid atween da erz? end chee siz OK end yoo pull yoo
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2806 20 15
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I tell my friend, the animal lover, not to get too near the panther's cage. "Why not?" she asks. "You'll see," I say.
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2806 0 0
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At the time, we only knew that our guest had been lying on the carpet long enough for the coffee spilled on him to have coagulated and almost completely dried, and for the French Vanilla to achieve the consistency of glue. Or, at least, a thicker glue.
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2803 26 15
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wear that short skirt and those high-heeled boots
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2803 7 6
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Many of you may think I can't talk but I do, excessively so and all jaws. I wonder if that's the reason I get burnt sometimes. And yes, I too have a life, hear me.I was born on a rainy day somewhere in Asia, when a stranger bought me on the antique Bird & Flower Market…
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2801 29 21
|
Why was it so difficult to move / toward anything?
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2801 41 9
|
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2801 17 11
|
When the whistle drops, do not take any guff.
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2800 11 7
|
We all build portraits, meaning we all try to encapsulate and thus punctuate time. Why? Because, who among us can swallow eternity whole?
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2799 8 6
|
Do I have grounds for inadequacy?
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2799 22 7
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The first thing she remembers is sunshine, then her own dawning, and feeling the lumps on her head and bruises on her face and pain in her heart and aloness of her soul.
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2797 2 2
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Planned developments have garages in the back, hasty retreat and advance protected by the Genie Automatic, come and go and go and come, waving is optional.
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2796 22 16
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The movies he liked best were the ones in which white people played Asian leads. Since his girlfriend had left, that Barry was adopted had seemed to become more of a fact.
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