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Nor did I respond with the obvious, that my brother might very well go to jail, probably would someday, but he would never ever call. Three words were scratched in ballpoint blue on the wall above the phone. Think a head. I thought how that was good advice, but maybe a bit late for anyone using that phone. I thought how it would be a good name for a beauty salon.
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I DIDN'T KNOW what she was thinking or feeling. Her body had become unfamiliar to me. And yet, at the very same time, I recognized everything about her. My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip. As if I were looking in a mirror.
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I am shaking it, popping it, laying it down and working it out
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At five of five, I called the airline number--800-FUCK-YOU--and was told I had to speak directly to lost luggage at the Sacramento Airport. No one answered in Sacramento, though my call was important to them.
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Sylvia's first impression of Allegra was that no one had ever before had such a beautiful baby. Jocelyn's first impression of Grigg was that he had nice eyelashes and a funny name, and didn't interest her in the slightest. Prudie's first impression of Bernadette was that she was startling to look at and dull if you listened, which you hardly ever had to do. Bernadette's first impression of Prudie was that, in all her long years, she had rar..
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I wasn't happy, exactly, but I was remembering how happiness felt.
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I appreciated her vigor. I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them. Freak or fake, I'd been asking myself ever since I arrived at college, and here was someone bold enough to be both.
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And this is a small point by comparison, but why do Republicans persist in substituting "Democrat," with its "rat" ending, when "Democratic" would be correct? Because they want us to know, in every word they speak, how much they hold us in contempt. In my lifetime, the Republicans have never accepted a Democratic president as legitimate, no matter how many people vote for him [or her.])"
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Jocelyn was dumbstruck. She couldn't think of a single thing she'd done that might give that impression. "I don't."
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We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies...
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The monkey girl had made another unscheduled appearance, and it had landed her in jail again. When would she learn to behave with restraint and decorum?
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So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. the value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't; it's Emperor's New Clothes gone global. If chimps used money and we didn't, we wouldn't admire it. We'd find it irrational and primitive. Delusional. And why gold? Chimps barter with meat. The value of meat is self-eviden..
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Besides, it was a high bed. The dogs could never have gotten into it without help. Maybe one could have stood with its front paws on the bed frame while the other scaled its back in some unlikely dachshund Cirque de Soleil, but even then there would be only one dog in her bed, not two.
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Svatko misli o tom kako promijeniti svijet, ali nitko ne misli kako promijeniti sebe.
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Tajna je dobrog zivota u tom da pruzis svoju najbolju utakmicu u svem sto radis. Pa cak i ako bacas smece, to moras izvrsno obaviti.
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So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all along until we change our minds again, send me back to being wrong.
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My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face.
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The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff.
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The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't
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I'm red as a berry, shiny from the pickling of the womb, and squinting at the world through suspicious, slitted eyes.
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At twenty-two, I had the callowest possible definition of interesting and, by the measure of my own calipers, was far from interesting myself.
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Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?
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We call them feelings because we feel them.
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Whatev was the first hand sign I learned at college, but there were several popular then. There was the thumb-and-index-finger L held against the forehead, which meant Loser. The whatev W could be flipped up and down, W to M to W to M, in which case it meant Whatever, your mother works at McDonald's. 'Cause that's the way we rolled back in '92.
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An election year in the U.S., as if you needed to be reminded, the vituperative tunes of the Ayn Rand Marching Band bleating from the airwaves.
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Yes, it is. I'm leaving the marriage, I'm not leaving you. As long as you're in the house, I'll take care of the house." "Fuck off," said Sylvia."
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WHERE YOU SUCCEED will never matter so much as where you fail," I said."
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The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look." They" --
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We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies.
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But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail. .
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I often felt wild back then; I enjoyed the feeling, but nothing had ever come of it.
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Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I'm not.
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The secret to a good life", he told me once, "is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence"."
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One morning I was bicycling to class when a large flock of Canada geese passed overhead. I couldn't see them, or much of anything else, but I heard the jazzy honking.
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We sat around our own table, an island of sad reflection in an ocean of merry din.
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Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.
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When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.
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intended as a dig at my father, the enterprise being another of science's excesses, like cloning or whisking up a bunch of genes to make your own animal. Antagonism in my family comes
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When we'd gone to Disneyland, the tree house had been my favorite thing in the whole park. If only I'd had no parents watching my every move, if only I'd been a happy, carefree orphan, I'd have hidden under the player piano until everything closed, and then taken up residence there
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The dogs came racing up the stairs. They danced at Rima's feet, frantic with the need to communicate something to her. Little Timmy's down the well! Feed us ice cream and potato chips! Sometimes there's a benefit to not sharing a language.
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We used to believe that memories are best retrieved in the same place where they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore. But
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Je zou maar slecht over hem gaan denken en dat wil ik niet, want dat is mijn taak
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My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.
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