1996 7 3
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Already, I can see that, whenever Harold moves, some of his soul escapes, like an accidental exhalation, like breath on powder.
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1840 15 5
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Megalomania is a kind of backwards leprosy. It rots your insides out while your skin glistens and grows tighter around your bones.
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1602 9 5
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I follow what pulls me forward.
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1519 11 6
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On my honeymoon, we went upstate to the Catskill Mountains.
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1212 6 5
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I texted a wickety-split, tax-declaring New York-based international escort, a moonlighting, all-pro Kit, whose day job on Wall Street yields no bonus.
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1599 6 6
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The real problem with being face blind isn't that you can't recognize faces. It's that people expect you to be able to.
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1455 10 6
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There were only six passengers aboard the small ferry...
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1743 8 6
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274 12 5
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Lo and Behold, there you are beside me
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1696 7 5
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my God, I have no time, no time
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1539 10 6
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1297 8 5
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Mari thinks that's all fine and fucking dandy.
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3129 9 6
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He asked what I used for birth control and I told him, “prayer”. He smiled the kind of smile you smile at young girls who don’t know any better.
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1695 8 5
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3094 12 4
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The decision to wage war on terrorism gave to terrorism its political legitimation.
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1358 8 6
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The first inkling that I might be in love with Josie came at our high school senior day outing at, oh, what's its name, state park. I forgot, but it doesn't matter. She smiled, did a little wave and stepped away from her friends, lifted her sundress a little to keep it dry,…
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1460 8 4
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God had decided to resign. Not even two weeks notice. He just resigned. Point blank.
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1648 13 6
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Valentine Dayso excitingit means he really loves herwhat will he bringshe waitshe comes home with a hang dogexpression on his faceher valentine was leftat the gambling table
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894 6 5
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(Suddenly, too lazy to pull even one title from his shelves, he thought: if it's now the “Dao De Jing”, shouldn't it also now be the “I Jing”? Alas, he was no translator.)
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1636 8 5
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I didn’t question any of it and instead sat motionless as she dropped my wrists and walked away seconds later.
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1639 2 1
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the champagne foam cascades like cherry blossom ensnared in the first gales of spring
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1450 9 6
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New waitress/bartender
draws my attention to
bare ankles and red hair
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1746 10 6
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I saw/
star shine in/
my silver pail
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2306 15 4
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There’s things you can change in this world and things you can’t. We have to figure out which is which. Though I never was much good at it, I guess.
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913 8 6
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There will be no more internal birds like singing clocks, not like the lovely ones I know and still look forward to hearing, ringing like little bells in the church y belfry of the newly sprouting mornings to come, not unless the birds…
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1698 8 5
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1720 8 5
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For you I bring the circus, I reinvent
the shine
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1603 6 6
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It was always your body that told so much --
lips working some secret out
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2017 11 4
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I sink until water saturates my lashes, waiting, breathless, for the words to stop.
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2089 14 6
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The winter following their son's death, Mr. Kelly's wife became absorbed by the tracks that ran in back of their house. At any given hour in the night, he'd hear her in the next room, their son's old room where she now slept, shuffling through dresser drawers. He…
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