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“She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth…

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My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of…

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Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.

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Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

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I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns.

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“Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.”

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“She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her…

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“Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?" Ignatius bellowed over the crowd in front of the store. "This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians, all of whom are only…

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employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in…

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“Do I believe the total perversion that I am witnessing?”

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Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a…

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“I suspect that beneath your offensively and vulgarly effeminate façade there may be a soul of sorts. Have you read widely in Boethius?" "Who? Oh, heavens no. I never even read newspapers." "Then you must begin a reading program immediately so that you may understand the crises of our age," Ignatius said solemnly. "Begin with the late Romans, including Boethius,…

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I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make…

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“In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.”

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Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on…

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