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1645122
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Frankie married me during my theory stage. I hadn’t known her long.
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1644107
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Carthage, Rome subdued:/itself, Rome never long tamed./Memento mori.
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16442719
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“There’s an ill energy that emanates
from your precise heart that I find attractive”
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164485
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But the silver Corvette is like the inside of a church. It's a sacred place. The white leather interior is spotless, luxurious. The dash is real wood, walnut, he says. He caresses it like a body, like a woman.
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164463
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For some, a vertical pattern will evoke prison bars, for others, product bar codes.
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164454
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“I don’t see how anybody could do it.”
“I could do it. I could do it because it ought to be done. When a thing needs doing, it’s best to go on and do it.”
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164494
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I hate walking into restaurants and cafes by myself to meet someone. I always feel awkward, as if no one will claim me. I'm hanging on the threshold now for an agonizing few moments scanning the room until I see my friend.“Hi!” she says, waving her cup at…
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1644133
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We lived in a Holiday Inn trying not to be depressed that life had turned out to be so much like Eastenders, trying not to acknowledge that the thrill we’d got out of each other was the thrill of giving in to the wrong thing. We had more sex than ever b
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1643115
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You aren’t easy to explain, you Americans.
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16431718
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It's that quiet comfortable darkness. One should feel it often and necessarily.
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164363
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Cap'n Pepper tries and tries but Old Salty is never happy.
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164396
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Okay, no freaking out. I mean, this isn't a suicide note. This is suicide fiction.
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1643255
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" Not a day goes by/ that isn't stabbed with common sorrow"--Maurice Manning Crazy's alright by me if it's a harmless plea for some little sanity, or unavoidable by birth but it just won't do for tricks. Like say I go over there right…
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164300
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Pussy’s eyes narrowed, her dark, luxurious fur quivering on her back. “How can you say such a thing! It’s not true.”
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164322
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I don't know what my mother is thinking. She's either cart wheeling into crazy land or turning into a ghoul.
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1642148
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I passed Buster Keaton on the way to work this morning. He was standing, hands in pockets, at the corner of Riverview and Keil. It was the young Buster, handsome and still strong enough to pin down the scars that marked his childhood. This was the Buster
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164266
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The light, oblique and waning, filters through butcher’s paper to reveal a body suspended in death but never decomposing.
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164233
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Blacked-out out on junk, I bet money on a sport I hated just last year.
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164263
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It wasn't until later that I realized that any time a teacher complimented you on your use of imagination, it was because they didn't know what else to make of whatever you'd created. My homemade narrative video in lieu of the assigned “getting to know y
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164211
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Alaina paced around in the green room. She couldn't believe she had agreed to do this. Her friends had told her it would be an excellent idea. How can agreeing to marry a total stranger on national television a decent idea, let alone an excellent one? "Oh Lain, it'll be…
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164221
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“Cheng Ho didn’t go just Cape Horn; treasure ships visit Australia and America. His very advanced compass. Not just point north-south. Show east-west too.”
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164210
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Forever
Implies
To my recycled soul
That it is achievable
If only I stretch myself
Towards it
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16402215
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The Cheshire grinning/
moon cups itself to capture/
Venus should she fall.
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164043
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I was nine when I saw my first dead body.
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164062
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You longed to rip off her butterfly wings and watch her scream in agony. You ached to carve the steel from her eyes.
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16392619
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For my father, my best buddy.
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16393220
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one day I will take you / to Grenada
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163986
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Do I have grounds for inadequacy?
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