2407 13 11
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Plastic Jesus wears a crown of thorns. I gesture and say: Does that hurt? He says: What do you mean? so I point at his forehead and his hand goes to it and he says O that
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2407 1 1
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The Sentinels held up their weapons at the main door, preparing for a fight. Lori saw the look on the girl’s eyes, something she felt she should not see in them.
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2406 27 17
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He's Eric Roberts, the stalker and eventual killer in Star '80.
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2406 25 12
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2406 9 2
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spreading gilded pages with a tlickt
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2405 2 0
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Hanging was back and thriving - twice a week at half seven in the evening.
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2405 6 2
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She reached under the tissue and pulled out a third gift.
“It’s like peeling open my heart,” he said, “one layer for each year.”
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2404 8 3
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My resistance sublimates. There is a long instant of absolute relinquishment, in which I imagine droplets of water plinking into my lungs in a slow, musical fashion, like icicles melting in a perfect cave.
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2404 15 3
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They shared a lot through the years – a bus stop, acne, and first kiss stories. George was happy to be her confidant, good enough friends to help shoulder her burdens. But he wanted to push her curls back behind her ear and trace her soft cheek with his f
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2404 9 6
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No, I just liked what it said "All at Once Is What Eternity Is" which seemed right to my seventeen year old mind, explained it all to me the way nothing else did. I matted the poster in art class and put it in a frame over my bed. Betty hated the poster.
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2403 5 3
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leave a trail of potential weapons dropped from your shaking hands. you must always make it easy for him to follow.
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2401 32 15
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Maybe the thing is over by now. They have gathered up all the pictures and mementos of our dad’s life and hauled them away.
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2401 5 1
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Do you want social justice! Do you want a good and fair world!
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2401 3 0
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On the fisherman boat, we were told to place the helpless firefly squids in our mouths. I watched cheeks light up like light bulbs and I wondered how barbarism could be so beautiful.
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2400 3 0
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Imagine, if you will, the heartland of America–the Mississippi River Valley–as a woman sprawled out on a bed.
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2400 3 1
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Got a home repair question? Ask Mr. Fix-It! He usually knows the answer, and if not, your problem isn’t worth fixing.
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2400 1 0
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2399 10 3
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The first thing one notices about rocks is they are essentially quiet creatures. Adverse to long discourses or extended bouts of conversation, they nevertheless are quite engaged in life.
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2398 21 16
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Mark Strandover decadesa steady diet of dictionenlarged his heartone day it just burstRobert Frosta crazy ideathat he couldbuild a wallwithout mortar tookpossession of his mindhe piled stoneon stone higherand higher untilthey toppled overcrushing him beneath Wilfred…
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2396 3 4
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My tongue is clicking.
I want to act out.
I want an unprofessional bargain.
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2396 2 0
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I was going through Lenin's jewelry and his paintings with a team of experts. I got the idea that I was hired to verify his paintings, although I didn't know he painted.
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2394 4 3
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I’ve paid my dues in this dimension/
so show me where the rest of them are
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2394 17 11
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(Insert poignant line here)
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2394 6 4
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Human being: a fruit or vegetable with animal aspirations and a mineral destiny.
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2394 10 5
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That’s when the inconspicuous-until-now janitor saunters over, glances down at their starlist and mumbles, “Don’t forget the sun,” and the astronomers all slap their foreheads and smile.
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2393 24 23
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That evening I sat and watched the sunset. The color of the water changed from blue to black. The sky turned from pink to star-spangled ebony. There was no moon.
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2393 19 6
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She's at an artist colony in the state of Virginia. She's in her studio. She should be writing. That's what everybody thinks she's doing out here. Why else would she be in her studio alone at 3:00 a.m.? But there's an interloper. A new painter? Sculptor? Maybe he…
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2393 3 2
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Homegirl wanted someone to love her so much they could suicide together.
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2392 26 17
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My wife tells me I should marry Pam. “She would be good for you,” she says.
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2392 4 4
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When Charlie woke up he couldn’t find his inner Charlie.
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