1605 4 5
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His daddy died in his sleep. Went to bed one might and never got up.
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160500
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Read that bit in Alice about the mock turtle soup
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160563
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“I guess I'm enchanted,” I'd written on another occasion.
“Then why don't you ride out here and save me? Is your horse lame or something? Maybe you could just kill me and make us both happy.”
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160500
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"Holy shit. Holy shit holy shit holy shit..."
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160565
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I left the train, still going nowhere, but in a hurry.
Still a boy, but trapped in a suit.
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160565
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just another torn & burning journeyflag for the rebel heart. All we know forsure is that dancing among the toads andcrickets takes a bit of courage. Beauty takesreal living guts these days. Laughing takes guts,too. Living takes love. Love is feeling. What'dyou think I…
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160510
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Now Ninalee gets up from the table. She starts to put some snacks in a bag for Janny and Benjie, and some storybooks in there too, to read to them in the park: books about trains, mostly, and there’s one with a bus and one with a car...
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160533
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Sitting in the car, John had the urge to kill himself.
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160521
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Lady, if I were going to hire a whore, it wouldn't have been you.
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160553
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1) be awake2) wear clothes1a) get out of beda1) go to bed the night before6) put a smile on her face, but not too smiley6a) maintain precisely calculated level of irony and derision in a just kidding (not kidding!) manner suited to responses of the enemy6aia) normal words,…
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160572
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Love is a strong word ... When you could have been enough.
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1605120
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Jody wakes some days with pieces missing.
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160541
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It's come down to this: you're a grown man afraid to face his own son. For the past few years there has been tension;…
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160440
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After sportscasters announced the assassination and while the reverberations of the words were still fading people were already shouting
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1604149
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The dog is reading. This morning, as every morning, the book is open in front of him. Well before his master's rise, he had already read the moon then dawn and the clouds. Now the slippers, these that walk here and there. Followed by coffee and the pages that turn. A little…
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160410
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My famous ‘Black Feminist Casserole’ was soon renamed ‘34C casserole’.
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160411
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Five years ago—or maybe ten—I clipped an article containing a quote that has haunted and inspired me ever since, and tacked it to my wall. Describing the success of diplomats from nearly ninety nations to convene in Oslo, Norway, and agree on the wording
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160421
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As the jughead turned with a humph the old man muttered, "what a jerk." The jughead spun around and glared at the young black man and said, "Did you say that?" The old man laughed, raised his hand, looked up at the jughead and said, "I did." The jughead t
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160461
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Fucking buffalo, the curse of the writer.
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It’s strange, what will become of me
What my life will be like
Since the animal in me
Is beginning to show on my back
Oh no, no, no
Women will never put up with this
I was afraid this would happen
They’ll think I’m only half a man
I’
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160497
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Just drank / The last of the eggnog
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160422
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I have reasons to believe she’s been stealing.“
“Stealing what?”
“Steaks.”
“Steaks?”
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160464
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He injected her with a sedative to keep her still. He projected himself into her narcotic dream, a small bar with tango playing from a jukebox. They were dancing.
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1604108
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My first love was a woman of principle. Never deny your man was her motto.
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160400
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We looked out into the darkness and then at our children. The dark of the forest was feeding them with ideas, filling their imaginations with things beautiful and things wicked.
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160495
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Beneath the rise and murmur of your voicethere lies a hush more rapid than the silence meets within your eyes; the ghosts of cloudfall also meet them there. Your tongue has murmurs more than I can hear just now, for here my ears are met with something…
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160463
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I feel so glamorous when I talk to Andy on the phone
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160322
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I am a human resource, batteries not included
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