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- At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage…
- Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other,…
- But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was…
- Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs…
- They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and…
- That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And…
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- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
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