1175 16 13
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The body is an endless safari
filled with rhino sightings
and encounters with antelope.
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1150 12 10
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Sometimes I had the time right, and sometimes the place; that day, they came together.
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1328 16 10
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A figure left the building.
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1617 14 12
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The hour reflected those pleasant moments when evening hunger can be satiated by anticipation alone, before the pangs become demanding.
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1859 21 12
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I couldn’t begin to give an account of the latest days.
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1703 13 10
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And here you are. Before your time. Behind the glass.
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1355 14 10
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1506 20 12
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burnt-up leaves rustle and fall
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1415 19 12
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I was to limp with stunned, growing horror, as I navigated through the swirling smoke and maze of human corpses...
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1590 14 13
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I formed a snowball in my bare hands. Hard as a rock, I let her fly.
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1553 15 11
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They say, we have hangnails.
I say, I have a bruised leg.
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1503 18 12
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“ I told you what she said, that she liked me better when I was drinking. Well, that's the way I feel, too. I liked her better when I was drinking.”
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1205 14 8
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an undercurrent of fear is running through my community
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1459 10 10
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We used to smile when we saw the other smile.
We used to laugh just at the sound of our laughter.
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1530 13 12
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She was thrilled when she learned that her best friend was having an affair.
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3497 25 10
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Class differences in New York (and if you believe F. Scott Fitzgerald, in America, generally) are best viewed from the beach.
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1750 16 12
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The day after falling in love,
I became unmoored from everything familiar.
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1687 19 8
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It has scent, your heat, of jonquils and lime, of spices seared in a hot black pan.
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1358 21 11
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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1464 15 13
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I'm still working on this. I'm always open to your thoughts.
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1416 21 12
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It chases other newborns down and eats them.
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3117 12 12
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He was starting fresh, starting legal.
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1581 15 12
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Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
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1479 16 9
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Sometimes you can't sleep.
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1038 20 12
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I say her- it might be him-/
but from a distance I supply the details I prefer.
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1441 15 12
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You anchor the real
You make love to the true
I am bound to you in consecration
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214 17 10
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Whenever my mother’s will-to-live wavered and her hand reached out for the electric fence, my ash would whisper, “Live, live.”
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1887 20 12
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...I pray for the animal souls I have taken -- panther, gazelle, hyena, vulture...
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1769 10 10
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... and you can’t balance your checkbook or divide a three-way bill in a restaurant but you can still recite all the sixteen ways of SHAUN CASSIDY TELLS: 16 WAYS TO TURN ME ON!
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2710 12 7
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It's an easy thing to take out an eye.
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