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The apartment was a second-level place, so I went down the steps and looked through the stained glass window of the door. “Ah hell,” I said to myself. Raymond Carver and John Fante and Charles Bukowski were outside. I opened the door.
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190300
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See a girl like Lily sitting offstage in a wooden chair in a fourth-rate club somewhere, crying, holding on so hard to so little, and as it breaks your heart to watch; forgive me. Understand me. You can’t rescue us. We all deserve more.
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190343
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[testing ... one, two, three ... testing ... is this thing on? ... ok, here goes:]
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190371
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In 1978, a computer program became privy to my grandmother's most secret thoughts.
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19033017
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It was a surprise they put me in a dormitory, not a cell,
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190320
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A black wind raced ahead of the Merbreth and Juko could smell the thing's fur, matted with the blood of men. The coppery scent mingled with the fear coming off the men around him, a fear so palpable it became a tangible thing, something to be tripped over
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1903168
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He disliked intrusion and very specifically innocuous intrusion, nice guys, one might say, who tried to be near him to learn something from him or who admired him but who, as in that passage, came merely to disturb his work.
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190210
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For Hector it was animals. Rats, dogs, fish, and quite often horses – sometimes even lions. But for Achilles, it was always dead bodies.
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19022612
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In her belief that Juni is lucky, Jade eases the horrors our mother suffers at night, not because Juni is stuck in a physical passion, but because the whole family and whole groups of strangers know what Juni is doing for sex.
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19023313
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There was dad sitting at the table, wide awake, reading glasses on nose, pen in hand above a Doppler graph of numbers on paper, one of many now-lost theorems, looking up as his son walked into the room.
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190254
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You can’t take a chandelier on an emergency dash across a nuclear desert.
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19021615
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• Don’t confuse the virtues of bananas with the virtues of banana bread
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190234
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Out the window is an empty birdbath, dry flaky concrete ring, no birds.
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190262
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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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190273
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“There are no inhibitions in here,” the postman shouted, gesturing at the dance floor with his Marlboro Light, the glowing tip aimed at a woman in a taut skirt. Leaning far forward, her hands nearly touching the plywood floor, she planted her feet and beg
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1901125
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The right is empty, waiting to receive the load like a catcher behind home plate.
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190188
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I took 7 Beatle Song Titles and Made 7 Darryl Poems Out of Them"Some musicians heal ethnic groups. Some musicians heal nations. The Beatles healed an entire planet."--Joe Queenan"There was adventure,knowingness,love,and abundant charm.From any angle,they are the…
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190199
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What if I said;
I never liked actually reading?
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190133
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190160
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“Actually, children, none of us will be having birthdays this year,” my father sighed.
“Not even me? Why?” asked Charlie.
"Son, this is what's known as a ‘one-party democracy."
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19011011
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the brand we like best and buy whether it's on sale or not. Surely there is another blue cheese dressing that is sold, possibly in San Francisco and made in a Berkeley basement by hippies who scrape together all of their change twice a year and buy cheese from an ancient…
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1901106
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He kind of enjoyed living by himself. It was nice and peaceful.
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190113
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While I didn’t like to see Courtney swat smokes out of his mouth and admonish him, saying “Cigarettes. Bad. Fire. Bad,” her home was such a beautiful place, with its real wood and two TV and all...
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190141
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“There’s cheap land at Cudlee Creek perfect for breeding long-haired rabbits,” he added. “They can’t jump high so fencing costs are low.”
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I watch my mother and my daughter, each wondering in her own quiet way about where this story will go next.
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190121
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Fleas were a constant reminder that humans are food.
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1901127
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I am a romantic writer, true. But what comes after the romance is what fascinates me. A lover dying is the most beautiful scene I want to write. The most beautiful scene I have yet to write.
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190170
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Who is the moron that invented the Snuggie?
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19001410
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They were carried out / over shoulders of running soldiers / naked bodies pass
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19002118
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There can be no convergence./
There is only the talking that talks about/
an angle of sight nothing else can share.
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