1211 5 3
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She is a manifold of temporal flows.
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1050 2 0
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Keep it quick (and they usually did) and it was simple.
Quick as the walk between their houses, from number 27 to number 33 (odd numbers only), and simple as the alibi.
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1044 1 0
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For you, airplane wings said 'life has not been kind here'. Kind, like what was missing was tea or as if we didn't clean our windows properly. There was that time when, stood in the kitchen Rupert saw the fire. Flames lapping at the gate of…
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1183 4 2
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They sit across from each other and she smiles as if they were in a normal place.
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2192 7 5
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Montauk was the solution. He had no job, no money. He could stay for the winter at the summer place. It would be a lark. He had come home to Great Neck after losing the last job and they were making broad hints at him to move…
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979 6 2
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Look, “Wolfie,” (or “Pharaoh,” or whatever your name is now) a little too much information, don’t you think? I don’t need to hear all the details about you and Sharon. It’s my life, and I’ll cry if I want to – to alter the song just a
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999 1 0
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As soon as a complication emerges, the obvious choice is to move to another line. But I don't. I can't.
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1184 2 1
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Like the willow she stands alone, swaying.
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1115 0 0
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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber
hugging a pillow you think is someone else.
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2208 26 16
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I thought to tell him I do not love raspberries, but blueberries, but he did not attend to the things I loved.
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1314 8 5
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Both men sip their Cabernet Franc.
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1299 4 1
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When I came back from California the second time, in the summer of 1965, I was the first around our town to wear my hair long, influenced by the Beatles. And I bought a bunch of blue caps that everyone in our gang wore, with the number “69” sown on
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2063 15 11
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She sets the muffins aside, opens herself, nymph-like, mouth spread and gritty. She pulls the dirty edge of his gray t-shirt up so to show herself to him, spreads herself across the mattress like thin flesh oil over too much canvas....
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2232 37 14
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I should have created a first-date questionnaire heartaches ago.
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1141 8 4
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He stood with the bride of quietness / on the precipice of questions
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1095 0 0
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With a madman’s laugh, she realized her mistake and discarded it as irrelevant.
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1758 10 9
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The winner was some kid from Ohio or Oklahoma -- one of those states that begins with an "O" and ends with a yawn.
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934 9 1
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The smell of Coppertone Suntan Lotion always brings back memories of the beach. I remember you rubbing it on my stomach and you kept moving lower and lower. I had on a bikini bottom (very daring) and you rubbed your finger all along the rim of it just a
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2287 3 2
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Things have happened.
It’s a given. What, are you crazy? Of course things have happened. It’s the world, for Christ’s sake. Things are happening. I am consistently missing most, if not all, of them.
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1115 0 0
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“All I want,” he was heard to say, “is a date with a really
good-looking woman before I go away.”
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1811 10 4
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I feel a strange loneliness for her...I think I will go to the beach, and forgive it for its sharp sand and lack of trees.
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1593 12 4
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It rises rigid and plumb from its heavy base, the severity of line yielding to grace only at the throat where it crests into a subtly constrictive pinch.
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6479 55 30
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She made them all watch ``Oceans Eleven'', even the baby...
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979 2 0
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With a sigh she rubbed her face into wakefulness, and then sucked two fingers, thinking of melted cheese.
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1092 6 1
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[Lights up on CLAUDE. He's holding a letter, standing.]CLAUDE: Dear sir, We regret to inform you That your (that place with cream walls and dog hair…
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1090 7 1
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Drink tons of water they keep telling me...
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1522 4 2
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Renee said, "I have actually slept with a number of Captains of Industry and would rate them, overall, deficient in skills."
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814 2 0
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I remember telling you that I listened to country music. You surprised me with a whole tape that you recorded of all my favorites and I didn’t know how you figured them out, except that you must have snuck up beside my bedroom window at night.
And
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1327 3 1
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I cannot find my way back to the bubbling navel of the universe because of Spongebob Squarepants.
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1486 5 4
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He reveled in the chase, giddy when just out of arm’s reach. When to catch him, that was the question.
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