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- And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I…
- If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets…
- [The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both…
- I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back…
- Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine…
- I’d been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I’d even known, for three days under a phony name,…
- I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a…
- That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch…
- Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart,…
- Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If…
- Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing.…
- And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead,…
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