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mother of the bride had been determined that her daughter would have a church wedding, and women who successfully name their infant daughters Tiffany do tend to get their own way, so an evening wedding it was.
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The way London carries on about the Thames you'd think it was a big deal, including lining it with all their classiest buildings, such as Parliament. San Francisco, the wind-up toy of cities, never gets over its Bay, and Venice is so much in love with its Bay that it's sinking into it. New York is full
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Probably nobody ever jogs toward the room where they will write their suicide note,
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Bobbi doubted there was ever much future for a couple who had nothing in common except heterosexuality.
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I am cuckolding myself
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There were other ways to live. You could do something else, if you wanted. And if you had a reason.
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If he were any more crooked, you could open wine bottles with him.
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now he was requesting as much microfilm as the librarians would let him have at one time, and was buzzing it all through the viewer with such speed that the machine was actually rocking on the table. (Several other researchers, with the frowns of elephants disturbed at their feeding, had gathered up their own materials and moved
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You're too cheap. You'd make me nervous to work for you. I'd come to you for a gun, you wouldn't want to give me more than one bullet.
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Fitzroy wouldn't
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Beyond that he was a ghost of Uganda; in this nation of his birth he was under a death sentence for the simple crime of having lived. And he was the ghost of his father's dream of security and continuity, there was no security, and this age was the enemy of continuity. Every man stands on the freight-car roof. We fall and fall, our feet planted on the solid surface, and the only question is how long before we hit.
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A friend of mine'll follow him home tonight", Tiny said, "to get me the address. He's on the four to twelve. Around one, I'll put on a ski mask and go to that guy's house and put his head in his holster." "A ski mask," Dortmunder echoed. He was thinking how much good a ski mask would do to disguise this monster. In order to be effectively disguised, Tiny would have to put on, at a minimum, a three-room apartment."
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In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.
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Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.
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The August sun, God's blood-blister...
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Brian had all that day to figure out what was going on, and yet he didn't.
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I believe my subject is bewilderment. But I could be wrong.
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Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering.
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