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- Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones:…
- Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.
- Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what…
- The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.
- It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like…
- Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us…
- The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived,…
- We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked…
- They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the lovers' braille. Hands…
- The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and…
- A womans mistakes are different from a girls
- Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he…
- Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.
- After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are…
- Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.
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