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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 like cinnamon rolls, but I don't always have time to make a pan. That's why I wish they would sell cinnamon…
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Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.
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My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works…
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My wife and I met when each of us was dragged to a party we didn't want to go to by friends.…
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My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.
— Christina Ricci
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Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.
— Heather Morris
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When I was 16, I was in Boston and some friends said, 'You want to go to New York?,' I went with…
— Stana Katic
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My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.
— Steven Wright
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Mona knocked at the wrong time. “Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- ” Mona shouted through the door. “Room service, gentlemen. Just pull…
— Armistead Maupin
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Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he…
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