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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy…
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Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as…
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It’s all right,” she said. “You’re through.” “Jesus,” he finally managed, pushing water off his face. “Jesus Christ and John the Baptist.…
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My cheek stung and throbbed. I remained on the floor of the cave. Belen stood between me and Kerrick. "...temper in check.…
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Sometimes I wonder if people knew, what I went through, Would they still treat me the same? Sometimes you don't know. Yes…
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I'm just trying to do the opposite of left, as long as there's the opposite of death, ya know. Yes, ya test…
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I believe that if someone truly loves you like the way you love them, they will definitely see the effort you make,…
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I have this gun I work with it everyday and it makes me happy holing it but when I'm mad sad or…
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