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We had been on the way to the church when we found them. The handkerchief in my breast pocket was folded just so and I'd tried to recreate the perfect ribbon in Ashley's hair, …
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111911
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As soon as he neared his neighborhood newsstand, handed over the exact change and had The New York Times in his hand, Irving switched from feeling he had no choices, to feeling he had a future.
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111900
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our house gives him a cold again
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111932
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"The editors at Travel & Leisure are more interested in perks from advertisers than the survival of the human race.”
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111900
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demanded he give up muscatel art
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111820
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An officer appeared and told us that we were already dead. We were already ghosts. As soon as you realize this, there is nothing to fear.
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111833
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"As soon as you're born, they make you feel small."--John LennonI cannot do anything about how beautiful you are, my sour flower, but I can tell you this much: Joni Mitchell is better than all the cowards in the world. They all chose to somehow…
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111800
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111840
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For those in know know know there was hint of a wilderness Cadillac...
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111833
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Diamonds are for suckers
Diamonds are for the miserable at heart
Keep that in mind when you are busy
Puffing out your chest and
Slipping on your dancing shoes
We were about to witness the release of souls
From the captivity of flames
At th
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111800
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I’ll give you a pair of grey cement pumps
then into the river, your body I’ll dump.
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111820
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I remember another one night stand in NYC with a girl named Marilyn. We’d met up at Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference in Vermont. It was the Summer of Love, and a number of us student writers were planning a trip out to San Francisco to participate in that f
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111813
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One must learn to give the Bull the things/
it needs: space, grass and grain, his mates/
and offspring, and elude the things/
its momentary fury wants- your death
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111800
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All Karin did was watch from the street. No movement. No reaction. She just watched.
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111821
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When gratitude on lovers' lips rings false/ As flattery by courtly sycophants,/ Take care to well distinguish gold from dross/ So as to gild gladder remembrances.
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111820
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With nipples like those, rose-colored, we could have fed a nation!
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111710
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The abstracted man lacks an inside. He is a body. A shell. An exterior that encompasses nothing.The abstracted man yearns to fill himself with adjectives. He lumbers through streets. No adjectives fit. He finds adjectives where we discard them. He carries them in his…
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111700
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They were an interesting young couple. Tom was a big man with rugged features, though not handsome. His face was deeply pock-marked with the scars that are sometimes left over from a terrible bout with adolescent acne. His wife – though I was never cert
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111710
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“You got a cigarette, man?” “Hey, mister, you got a cigarette?” “You got a cigarette, mister?” “Hey, mister, you listening to me? You got any spare change?” The voice was coming from the…
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111798
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A sense of plenty courses through
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111743
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We could act the anthropologist.
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111732
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Billy fell into a bottle, and we couldn't get him out.
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111722
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the visual field is an in-rushing city of refractions bouncing across the water.
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111701
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But all I see, the only irresolute shape in my mind that forms and becomes real, is you.
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111620
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Then there was Marsha, the blonde bombshell, at Irvine, who slept over one night only. As in the original one night stand, your standard L.A. blonde beach-girl bombshell ex-cheerleader tear your heart out and spit it as far as she could. Wrench your bal
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111611
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Surely someone as clever as I can hatch a plan that will make them pay for rejecting me. Ignoring my genius has a cost and they will pay the price.
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111641
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He puts the briefcase on the sand and removes a pistol.
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111600
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"A gush of sand- peppered wind from a passing semi-trailer hit my face rousing me from my mental comparisons."
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