1780 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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1750 15 11
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They say, we have hangnails.
I say, I have a bruised leg.
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1684 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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1459 14 8
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an undercurrent of fear is running through my community
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1792 13 12
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She was thrilled when she learned that her best friend was having an affair.
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3891 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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2056 16 12
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The day after falling in love,
I became unmoored from everything familiar.
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2448 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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1650 21 11
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Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names …
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1714 15 13
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I'm still working on this. I'm always open to your thoughts.
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1571 21 12
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It chases other newborns down and eats them.
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3369 12 12
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He was starting fresh, starting legal.
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1785 15 12
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Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
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2010 16 9
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Sometimes you can't sleep.
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1561 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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1682 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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2217 20 12
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...I pray for the animal souls I have taken -- panther, gazelle, hyena, vulture...
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2528 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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3067 12 7
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It's an easy thing to take out an eye.
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1476 13 12
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My eyes hold my mother. It's not easy being human she tells me. She always told me. Sure, but the stories are lovely. We all know that. We generate the tales, tell the tales, kiss our children. Live on in their eyes, though, don't…
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1763 17 10
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Ancestry.com The Liverpool census in 1851 lists him:Thirteen years old, Irish. Occupation: beggar. Only that. I will do more for him.I will see him in torn jacket and too-short pants singing all day of the fields, the cliffs,…
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787 13 11
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fallen leaves, broken limbs fron wounded trees
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1484 7 10
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From room to room, neither closet nor drawer contained any remnant of pleasant memory.
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2868 18 9
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I thought of driving over there across town, steering with buttered hands.
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1706 14 5
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She's the one you remember when there's talk of the blow.
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1897 20 13
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She offers the girl a seat, asks her to stay for a minute, but she can’t, she just came by to say hello, and don’t you like my new raincoat?
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1340 18 12
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the epiphany at the mast at midnight is not the same at dawn
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1587 21 11
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In a time of drought,/
the sound of rain is sweet/
and joyful music.
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1532 12 12
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a poem about things exploding/burning down/scattering for miles.
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