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You have transformed me into an aimless, sleepless wraith...
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189385
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As long as he could still take the stairs, he would go down there to be with the memories that each piece held. He knew that their time was about up, because his was too. His wife had already gone, and even before that she had long stopped using the washe
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18931311
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Know what you’ll become? You’ll become one of those guys who masturbates in any single occupancy restroom that locks.
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189321
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Jack, man in black, sporting manicured talons, his smile an iced knife.
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189385
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We might as well be honest: we’re talking about the two of us here.
No one, not even the cameraman, had any idea even after all these years. For more than a decade we’d been bringing the six o’clock news into a medium-almost-major market region.
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189220
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When Elvis died, I felt so empty that I headed straight for Jimmy Choo's, but quietly, with the half-veil of my pillbox hat draped low over my face. I didn't want to draw attention to my vintage Dior mourning outfit, since I normally wear pants, even here. The voices…
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It’s like faith. My battle buddy is out there, I know it, but I can’t see him, nor can I hear him. I just know he’s there, trusting he’ll do what he’s supposed to do, and he’s trusting in me.
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189294
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Take it from inside you and draw it out. Do it before it decides you are not what you seem to be and, as a result, holds you up by the thumbs.
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189254
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Max is the color of burnt caramelized sugar
the sweet crust that decorates our bright enameled pots.
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189232
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She's had a magnetic sign made for the side of her Honda, TRUTHMOBILE, simple and elegant. Maybe too simple; she's worried it suggests a religious affiliation.
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189294
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History is replete with brutally imaginative techniques of torture and execution, but I am the only death machine that doubles as a musical instrument.
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When you were nine your head fell off in the playground. Dr Mort was called. He pasted it back on with PVA glue. You'd never know now.——When you were nine your arms turned into trees. Dr Mort worked his magic with the chainsaw. You still need light pruning once…
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Mack’s mind held a chandelier.
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189175
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Came to admire Kiyoko Matsumoto. Japanese. Aged 19. Lesbian. 1933. Jumped into a volcano.
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“What part of ‘only bettors can watch the Yeti fight’ do you not understand?!”, he yelled. “Either place a bet or get the hell out of here!”
I begrudgingly gave him all of the money I had on me, about two hundred, and placed it on Demonio B
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1891146
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Imagine the poem written with a pistol at your head.
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. . . there is nothing so selfish as sleep.
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189031
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She picked the perfect white wine that she poured in the carafe early to give it ample time to breathe before the guests arrived. She thought of everything. The first course would be Asian Carrot-Ginger soup with black sesame seeds and diced green onion
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189020
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A cloud of light, white smoke floated out of the driver’s side window. Nate and Zach sat on the front bench seat, talked, and puffed away. “Breath in and say Mom is coming,” said Zach.
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They confess love for Karaoke and metal rock. They have purchased expensive Stratocasters and Zildjians.
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189022
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1. The Walking Heart Attack Man has two outfits. In the summer he dresses in a short sleeve checkered button down shirt and high waisted Bermuda shorts with sandals. In the winter he wears dark pants and loafers with a gray corduroy coat…
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189020
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Her mother told her once: "Don't be no whore, Fe-fe."
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18901313
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My friend says there's some kind of bug that bites its mate's head off after they have sex.
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189065
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Looking over the crowd in the arcade is like looking over a crowd of zombies.
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18902916
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a world of probability against plague
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188920
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the unhealthiness of obsession and control until the lines burn bright
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The rain is no terrible epitaph
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188941
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He lit my cigarette even though he didn't want me to smoke. Buying me drinks all night, he didn't complain, but he thought I drank too much.
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All wolves, my child, want to be eaten.
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18891918
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We were in the car more than anywhere else. A few days driving, then a few days to get back home.
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