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She lived a good life she told herself. She lived a good life because she demanded little- little materialistic comforts that is- at least this is what she thought- and what she demanded anyway was simple, aesthetic; sophisticated and perhaps even neat. Yes she was a neat…
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132566
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He can’t enlarge the rock—/
can only find its safest distance
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132554
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i hope that day comes sooner rather than later.
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132531
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There was nothing on the lake but a / faint sailboat and a shadowy gull.
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132521
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Over the last 30 days we have seen a radical decrease in our revenue stream. Our Q3 earnings fell dramatically short of what we had projected, and as a result the leadership team has had to look at some difficult cost-reducing measures.
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132521
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We are nerds. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us bitch.
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132521
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—Christ all mighty, said Ben to himself as he watched Isabella and Leona enter the bank. Those are some extraordinary examples of female flesh.
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132500
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When New Guinea's president was a student at UCLA he received an A- in organic chemistry after watching a Joan Rivers Informercial. Each year he tries to re-create the magic of that moment.
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132553
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The world follows me everywhere. I can’t get rid of it. I’m being stalked by a planet.
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132431
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This was not a good sign, comforting gestures from strangers were bad omens.
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132400
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An hour later, we're no closer to the tunnel. In our rental car, we're just two in a school of a thousand fish skimming the edge of the island. Go with the flow, we keep saying to each other. We're just going with the flow. …
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132422
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Can you remember now? How we could each disappear completely, connected despite fault lines. . . .
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132420
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Keep it quick (and they usually did) and it was simple.
Quick as the walk between their houses, from number 27 to number 33 (odd numbers only), and simple as the alibi.
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132453
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Some guys get by on hope or hate or both. Some lose their minds, if they brought them in the first place.
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132400
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“Eat up, little brother” Jack called out from his end of the table. “The food will make your blood dance. It will be eager to mix with Helen’s.”
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132472
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"The tundra was as cold and barren as Mother Theresa's womb."
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132489
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The manic,/
looking on, finds and polishes//
the sharp green shard and bottle cap
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132433
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Once I get through this I'm going to start: daily yoga stretches; walking the dog all the way to the waterfall every morning; tossing out, unread, Saturday's ads so I don't think about going into Walmart to buy Stack-A-Shelves (assembly required). Hey, even…
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132432
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Every year I make New Year's resolutions and every year I break them. So this year, I'm trying something different -- resolutions for other people. Hey world -- here are the changes I'd like to see YOU make in 2014(1) Cell phone owners: No more blathering on your cell in…
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1324119
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I kept my seat. Passengers packed in the aisle weren't moving and until they were, neither was I.
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1323122
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The squirrels love the sun
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132300
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They are sea scallops wrapped in bacon, grilled with butter and lemon and plated in heavy seasoned cream sauce and served with apricot chutney.
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132343
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You think you are a perpetual motion machine, free of thermodynamic law. I’m telling you, you’re wrong.
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132341
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I know what to expect because this has happened before. The darkness, the stench of an unlit match, The leathery sound of old wings flapping and finally that voice made up of feces and dust, ancient and terrible suggesting depravity and painful deaths t
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132310
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I had to go to
the lost and fondue.
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1323106
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There being so few venues for Lapp dancing in Lausanne in those days, Swish Suzi took a job in a Swiss sushi bar.
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1323124
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Strauss does all the stirring at the start./
The rest is all murk and meander
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132300
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Michael lay on his back and counted his breaths, measuring their depth of inhalation and release.
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Lips touch briefly at first
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