1337 6 5
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His shirts he hangs on the back of the chair, one on top the other so they won't wrinkle.
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1337159
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They were discussing reincarnation,
what animals they would come back as.
"I'd be a vole," Cranshaw said. Is a vole
even an animal? Connie asked.
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133753
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Any form of exertion would defile what we are trying to do
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133790
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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
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1337105
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If I could say only one thing more to Tony who died a month ago, there is one thing I could find to say
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133652
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Once there was a man who wrote in code. He was comfortable among substitutions
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133631
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Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.
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133662
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Your brother is not really blind.
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133600
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Two women are escorted to the desert, where they are shackled to the ground. Who are they, what have the done, and will they survive?
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133655
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Another year has flown, crashed to the ground, and convulsed to its death in a final match with the meaninglessness of existence. Decided to try my luck as a Walmart greeter this year but the apomorphine treatment made me break out in hives and I reacted…
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133644
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The last chick in the nest
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133621
|
The man could be a total brute, though the truth was he had the softest of hearts too. A real gentle giant. But get him going on a drunk jag with too much ouzo in his system, and look out.
|
133620
|
When they tell you to choose your last meal, it probably hasn't dawned on you yet.
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133621
|
Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
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133611
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You think there’s a chance the bag could be holding a severed head, or live or dead kittens.
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1336139
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133644
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So for now, let the snow fall, but
let it fall gently,
each flake as a soft piano note
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133632
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Artie Shaw gave Ava Gardner a reading list in preparation for their honeymoon that included The Brothers Karamazov, The Origin of the Species, Das Kapital and The Magic Mountain.
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133631
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Though his heart aches
his melody seems to flow
It creeps into the dreams
of all in slumber in the valley below
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133600
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“Well in opposite heaven every time you make scrambled eggs the shells break into a million pieces, then you spend eternity picking them out of the yolk.”
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133611
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Where the skin had grazed, shredded by the coarse gravel to form scabs, fascinated Jack. It reminded him of his youth and his own grazes, scratches and stitches. As a boy he imagined scabs were rough foundations of igneous rock, blood like lava pouring th
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133611
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I still picture her waving her bare arms and hands into the purple bellied clouds above the trees, her crooked smile, the spiraling silver maple seeds cascading soft circles around her determined reach, as though the very tree limbs shaping the sky above
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133554
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The silver urn of ashes inscribed
with his unknown name.
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133532
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I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!
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133532
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I used to be a poet, you know. /
Better, in many respects, than you.
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133513
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I imagined you going at her in ferocious fucking-- /
O, O, O, O, O, O, O Immortal Glistening Cock,
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133541
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No matter how bad his hair turned out or how avocado shaped one of those miscreants could make his head look, he would remain silent.
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133544
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I gave you two daughters.
I gave you four grandchildren.
I'm done.
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133582
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The lawyer is having a party the next weekend.... He's celebrating because he won a court case to have his alimony reduced.
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133598
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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