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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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The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall,…
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It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill.…
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Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by…
— Caprice Crane
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Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Producing is like pushing jello up a hill on a hot day.
— Lucy Liu
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I like pushing boundaries.
— Lady Gaga
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They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over…
— Jennifer Weiner
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Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills…
— Tom Robbins
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Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.
— Stephen King
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He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Boys and girls do you think its OKAY for you to judge??? NO,No it isnt. How would you like it if someone…
— Jasmine
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