2888 7 5
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If I wrote a war novel my wife would be killed off before our relationship figured out our differences. Like her being really Asian and me being just so-so Asian.
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2222 33 13
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The summer she turned 17, she had to hold all the pieces of herself together with a red ribbon she tore off an old dress. It wound its way around her neck, her heart and her throat. It snaked down to her hips, the curve of her thighs, and wrapped itself
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4125 59 19
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6749 20 17
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The woman returns from the store with an armload of books. She reads them quickly, one by one, over the course of the next few weeks. But when she opens the last one, the woman frowns in surprise.
All the pages in the book are blank.
Every single one.
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2021 20 18
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The doctor told me:
"You have 24 hours
to live.
no more, no less."
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2516 33 31
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She was a dead bird the morning I found her, wings clipped in dirt and blood vanished into tiny braille maps on concrete.
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3017 35 31
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I am not against the darkness / I can learn to live with restraint
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2603 30 15
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After our date, my sister, who has a boyfriend, came over with her Weimaraner. I started instantly to tell her of my sex with Nils. She shirked the conversation, tried to change the subject, and more than once, I persisted. I wanted her to hear about it.
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2187 29 11
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...her touch held such wisdom that it put babies to sleep...
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1973 43 27
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"I would date a dog," she says.
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1815 37 31
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Under the tree of the one apple, the Tin Man waited for his Tin Woman. He wanted to ask her to become his Tin Wife.
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1847 37 24
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I ate a novel. I digested a film reel. I vomited poetry.
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2134 31 15
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Then the moon cried real white tears.
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2259 60 24
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She’s waving, Hey, I’m home! Like nothing’s happened. Like weeks haven’t passed since she left.
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2885 8 4
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The first thing Vera did after her dismissal from the mortuary was buy a pack of cigarettes.
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2710 45 29
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He sat on a leather couch in the nude, blew smoke rings shaped like wild animals and picked verses out of the thick air.
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3317 32 23
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And God said, Let us create a being in our image, after our likeness, for God was alone in the universe.
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2809 52 29
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If you consider yourself neither little nor big, remember that anything large, colossal, macroscopic, ample, sizable, blown-up, bulky, mighty was once small, lesser, minute, tiny, dinky, gnomish, weeny or lilliputian.
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3038 46 21
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You make a mental note of the rising number of people that know you. You vow to trim the list.
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2696 41 33
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It was one of the first things she did after they opened the wall. That’s at least what she told me years later, more than 1000 miles from Berlin.
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2246 40 27
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And in the end, when there was nothing left and we all had come to look like whispers, we ate the sun.
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2984 41 31
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3199 28 16
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He looked at the receiver in his hand as it hummed its dead-line song. His hand shook. Shit, he thought.
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2404 31 24
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Write a list of what's wrong with everyone else.
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2180 63 27
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The commandant pried her lids open with steely thumbs.
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2519 32 15
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She's having trouble remembering the names of things.
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2439 12 8
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Such a curious smell in the air tonight: part skunk, part fire, part rubber of your tire, pulled liquid hot across that road.
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12139 66 28
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She leans to see fresh bruises in dawn's early light.
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2165 28 29
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1495 47 26
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Drop out of school. Buy a journal and keep a list of excuses. Run wind sprints and lay off the beer. Use teeth whitener.
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