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You want to be Teilhard de Chardin? You’re getting started way too late.
There’s a better chance you’ll be tomorrow’s Peking Man if I bury you in the cellar.
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119900
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“Well, Danny, what do you want for Christmas?”
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119900
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"...his previous prognosis of never being able to walk again has been upgraded to 'severe and debilitating physical pain and mental anguish,' so maybe there really IS a God!"
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119965
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I’ll take my Christmas carols neat-
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119900
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What would people say about me? He was immoderately adrift. Maybe pathologically narcissistic. A shame he dumped Gina, the best he ever did. In essence, a man-child.
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119900
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Italian authorities seized $1.9 billion in "green" investments made by La Cosa Nostra to launder money. Reuters
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119952
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Her legs splayed out
in front of her.
She was a mess
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119960
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The silence grew louder as it grew longer.
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119965
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“Tell me how sad they are.”
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119900
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Another subject of interest is "furverts"--"individuals who engage in sexual activity while dressed in animal costumes."
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119942
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Vicki's scream echoed in Michiko's ear, an unwelcome earworm.
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119933
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"..sneezing repeatedly into an obviously saturated cocktail napkin,.."
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119910
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Your words broke meLike a china vase dropped to the floorAnd though the pieces were recoveredStuck together with love and compassionThe cracks are there for those who lookI was happy to be there, content in that placeYou wanting to be somewhere elseNever telling me where…
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119820
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I have one, but I want another,
A little greedy perhaps.
She's my obsession, my indiscretion,
My little judgment lapse.
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119842
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I had laid my hand down hard upon a long forgotten shard of an old coke bottle.
The cut is deep.
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1198115
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Hardly a soul could pin him for creating the vehemence that found a streamule to her pen if she wrote in cursive or a fanjet to her keyboard if she typed quickly and satisfyingly in print, employing eight fingers and two thumbs—
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119800
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Everyone wants to feel like the world has lined up against them and any achievement they have been able to attain was done despite the best efforts of everyone who isn't them. That's a given.
But there is one group of people who seem to have a point.
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119800
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Ben watched Monique disappear into the first-class cabin. It didn’t seem likely that he would see her again after this flight.
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119812
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The women, I think,
Handle it better than
The men.
The men just stare
Straight ahead
Vacantly
Hollow-eyed
Lonely.
The women more
Fulfilled by their lives,
Having always
Expressed their love.
The men,
Not so much.
And find
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don’t ask me to set my goals./
I have none except safe air to breathe,/
a reliable roof,/
something aromatic in the oven.
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119832
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Chewy is an old dog. His face is mostly white.
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1198105
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Upstairs, in a room where some years later, the occupant would be murdered by his lover, I sat in my skivvies in an armchair and wondered if I should call my wife.
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119854
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No one has the right/
to script how someone dies.
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119843
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She couldn't see what was actually there—the landscaping. All she could see were dollar signs, thousands of them suspended in mid-air, floating over each new plant, each well-placed sprinkler head, every curve of terraced orderliness on the hillside. She…
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1198169
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Unless we see it, probe it,
Name it, star by star, and feel
This awful, tenuous gratitude.
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119822
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I give you three words
dripping wet with whatever and you
take them, harbor them...
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119810
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Sometimes I think our gathering is a ritual centered on collective visualization. Other times I feel like I have been physically transported. I am not sure there is a difference.
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119811
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Run up and down the hill shouting Hollywood! Hollywood! Hollywood! Order a penis size enhancer for everyone in the neighborhood. Invent theorems for the unrivalled glory of eggnog. Get drunk on utter futility. Pack my favorite suitcase with tree bark…
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the dark brown cloaked warden stands on his lofty perch
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