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A group of us from work are playing cards at a friend's house, so when my brother Jimmy calls, I take my phone into the other room. I already know what it's about, really the only reason he ever calls these days.“Look, I hate to ask,” he begins, the way he…
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131921
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Did I refer to Mark Twain’s typewriter as an animal? Did I call it a hyena? I would not say that about Mark Twain’s typewriter.
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131955
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i’m trying to remember
don’t all the best apples happen
in September?
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131941
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... and that’s the story of the Polish worker who looks like van Gogh.
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131930
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The last time my old lady threw me out, I decided to go and stay with my brother. I thought, "That's the last place I'll be welcome," and I knew that was true. The drive was calming, which was good, because Steven wouldn't have even let me in if I…
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131900
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Gibson Park, underneath the grove of trees beside the soccer field. She's buried. But don't say anything yet. Her disappearance will make the news shortly, but it hasn't yet.
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1319122
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full of mad hope / we dash into the street / leap into the fray / and enter splendiferous lists
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1319106
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Millennium jumped strumming lithium gum cumulative outnumber humiliated résumé jumpy instruments
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131911
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Been running so long
You've been running so long
I bet you can't remember
What you're running from
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131853
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—Mr. Martinelli, can you explain how you developed your painting technique?
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131811
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I have a fascination with Dickens and London and this was inspired by my next novel.
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131897
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“I fly in my dreams,” his mother said. “It's my privilege.”
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131820
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These are the days you wish would never end.
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131841
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Proponents of this pragmatic line of thinking say a tolerant approach to Islam will succeed where force has failed to persuade terrorists to abandon the religious fanaticism.
It's certainly worth a try--it worked with Presbyterians.
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131864
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It's not stories the quiet lack, but inclination...
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131831
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When Beez and I were visiting D.C., Beez saw MDW after many years and said, almost so that MDW could hear him if he wished, “His hair looks like Beethoven’s.”
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1318109
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The thumb, incarnate, knows/
the moment of the misplaced hammer blow;/
the tongue, incarnate, the cool invigoration/
of water drawn from the dark well.
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1318118
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Since dawn doesn't understand my words, I will give them to the donkey, finely cut for him, let them ferment some time and add a few sprigs of lucerne. The donkey grazes in the meadow down the road and always welcomes me with a grin that displays his mauve gums and his…
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131831
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The whole scene smells like paranoia.
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131831
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With spring rain
And greening buds
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131811
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A man in Watchupecka, OH, was charged Wednesday night with drunken driving in heavy traffic in downtown Watchupecka when he failed to stop for a red light.
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131800
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Normally, after her shift, Linda would make herself a latte, untie her apron, and study at one of the tables. That evening, however, KEXP kept playing songs with grating guitar riffs, and loud laughers were everywhere. She chugged her coffee, burning her tongue. Then, she…
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131843
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Reams of saggy bunting intersect the streets.
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131874
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Last night was full of little fists
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131855
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Wish more than ever there was a more perfect way to mean everything I say. If I could I'd certainly walk all my words right up to your face now and give them over, hand to hand so to speak. That's the point at which I'd very much…
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131843
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He began to chop the powdery substance and separate it into segments.
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131832
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Lying in the blissful glow of young television.
Idly sleeping, eyes open and ears closed.
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131700
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When we crossed the California/Oregon border, I had this
vivid image of sleeping bags filled with human bones. I shook
my head and the scene would not go away. The woods must be
full of dead campers, hitch hikers, run-a-ways, and black
teenage whores
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