2024 8 8
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They ask about WWII and he claims no kills...
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1967 13 12
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She learned the difference between listening and hearing, between looking and seeing.
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1597 18 8
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I told him he was just paying for his sins. He gave me a look. "Why me?" he asked.
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1633 12 11
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You make your art when you can and Perhaps vice versa. You really Don't know what that means? Consult your tarot. You make your Art and visualize your mind As a large pool of water. You Make your art and if you're lucky They may…
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1875 9 7
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"... I knew Willie had gone— out the back door or out the side window. I knew he probably slipped over the fence behind my house into Lou C.’s backyard..."
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1195 14 10
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It was 14:24 official eBay time. Louise had spent hours looking at over 30,000 items under “Elvis Memorabilia"
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1188 15 11
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I have become interested in Carracci / Ludovico Carracci
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1394 14 11
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chains across all the old doors
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1482 11 10
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Over his usual ham sandwich and Pepsi for lunch Uncle Waldo used to often say, “Going out in the dead of night without a flashlight is dangerous” and I'd nod but I kept slipping out, sneaking down my secret path and take a dip in the rich neighbor's pool because…
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1945 21 10
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He grew red-faced at her quiet words, "I'm pregnant."
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1548 12 11
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Coward, cuckold, she taunts: So be it. He's not a young man anymore, nor as clever as he once was, or thought.
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1434 23 11
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Every Monday you brought your Sunday finest to the bus stop...
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2132 15 11
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is every word is a small step takenaway from you that arcs back to me likea mamba's mouth. I'm not going aroundin place so much as running in circles. You can see my devilry here. You arethe truth here and that makes me the lie. You'renew morning. I'm much, much more…
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1512 11 12
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The shop is swarming with little women.
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1705 15 11
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There was nothing to do but dream ourselves forward. Nothing to do but not die.
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1531 12 11
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I walked to work back then...
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1555 22 10
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Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a word.
Do we have to?
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2029 15 9
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She's always sitting in a soft chair watching television with little stars dotting her elbows and lightning bolts on her wrists.
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5142 11 3
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The man meets a woman while out on his lunch break. She seems nice; they strike up a conversation. Before leaving, the woman gives the man her telephone number. The man goes home and thinks about it.
It’s been a long time since he’s been on a date.
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1763 15 10
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There was gonna be a rumble in our schoolyard. An outright brawl. It was gonna be just like Blackboard Jungle. Only real. Not some movie at the Duwamish Drive-In. Every boy in my school, it seemed like, was lined up outside except me. All the third and fourth graders…
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1915 15 11
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It could as well be late night infomercials/
saturating the screen//
with medieval looking exercise machines
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1590 12 11
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1367 13 11
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Ah, how sweet is forbidden fruit, how delicious undiscovered sin!
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1873 24 10
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One sunny morning, a big-bellied ball of yellow fur surveyed a yard full of prospective adopters and ran straight to one.
She’d been chosen.
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2027 23 10
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The knife that precedes the bigger knife that precedes the spoon that precedes the flat fork, with stuff like that I'm all butterfingers, & even though he's never been to Italy except once to shoot a gun when the world was a great big jumble, he remembers all…
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1184 13 9
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There's a witch in Laurel Canyon.She made Wes a promise.Her bungalow smelled like Parliaments. Parliaments, garlic frying in olive oil. Parliaments, garlic frying in olive, and a freshly opened pack of Red Vines. Wes could have curled up into a ball and fallen asleep on her…
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1826 12 11
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Save the whales. Save the dolphins. Save the bored housewives. Save my hands, so often cupped over the sorrow in being alive. Save the beautiful made-up cherries of delight I feel everywhere in your presence. Save the sprawling…
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1368 13 11
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My books wound you. They wound me / too.
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1233 20 11
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There was a form to it, not reproduction. I wanted to write Moby Dick without a man in it. [I wanted to write Moby Dick with only a woman in it.] But I didn't do it. It's like a seven-year diary, and it did happen. I might write it as memory then.
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2474 23 10
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Our house was big, red brick, with off-white walls that watched over us while we slept, while we prayed for our souls to be kept, while we shared bath water and bunk beds and the secret of the back closet we will die with and never reveal.
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