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“If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.”

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“Well … things are beginning to stack up a little,” said Gordo. It was the same old sod-hut drawl. He sounded like the airline…

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'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

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That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

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“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”

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“Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some…

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it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one…

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I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had…

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“They became desperate for an antidote, such as coziness & color. They tried to bury the obligatory white sofas under Thai-silk throw pillows of…

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A cult is a religion with no political power.

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I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

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