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Let's face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.
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It's hard to have faith in your fellow man when you're forced to look at some of his handiwork.
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Unplug yourself often and you risk losing touch with your feelings altogether.
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There's no point to anything if you get right down to it. We could all blow out brains out, but we don't.
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What I wanted was to bang by forehead against the steering wheel till it bled. Maybe the self-inflicted pain would help me clear my thought process.
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A man in a nylon bikini, with that little knot sticking out in front, isn't half as interesting as a man in a good-looking business suit. Charlie
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He blinked at me lazily and I blinked back at half speed, an exchange I later learned was called a cat kiss.
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Essentially we're talking about the buildup of ketones in the blood. Ketones are a type of acid that form when the body breaks down fat for energy. Patients typically have a recent history of binge drinking, little or no food intake, and persistent vomiting. This results in a delay and decrease in insulin secretion and excess glucagon secretion. A lot of hokum here that I'll skip . . . "Basically,"
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Kim Bass, Receptionist, was nowhere to be seen. This was fortunate, as I was so irritated with the way she'd treated me, I might have bitten her on the arm. I'd been a biter as a kid and I can still remember the feel of flesh between my teeth. It's like biting a rubber bathing cap, in case you're curious.
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The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.
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perfidy.
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Surely, Hell is your former spouse that close again... flirting with a nurse.
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At heart, I've always been a pretty little moralist. Private investigation is just my way of acting out.
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He opened his coat to reveal his badge, but I confess I didn't peer closely enough to commit the number to memory. This
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This was because his badge was attached to his belt in close proximity to his fly, and I didn't want to seem too interested. "Sorry to barge in unannounced," he went on."
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I don't know what love is about and I'm not sure I believe in it anyway.
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trail,
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don't mind my asking?
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worry about Dawna, we'll keep her out of circulation." Raymond emerged from the master bedroom, pulling his shirt on. He was still barefoot, wearing his wrinkled chinos from the night before."
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Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was Pete Wolinsky, an unscrupulous private detective I'd met years before through Byrd-Shine Investigations, where I'd served my apprenticeship. I worked for Ben Byrd and Morley Shine for three years, amassing the six thousand hours I needed for my license. The two were old-school private eye..
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its embrace. The sky still claims them and we who honor them will hold them dear from this day forward.
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What for?" "I'm not authorized to discuss the matter with anyone else. Are you related to her?" A pause. "I'm her sister. I'm from Minneapolis." The best thing about lying are the flourishes, I thought. I myself am a world-class practitioner. "And your name is?" "Patty."
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Infidelity reduces and diminishes, leaving nothing where you once had a sense of self-worth.
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What I could see of the apartment looked much like the office: gold high-low carpeting, Early American furniture, probably from Montgomery Ward. A painting of Jesus hung on the wall at the foot of the bed. He had his palms open, eyes lifted towards heaven- pained no doubt, by Ori's home decorating taste.
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All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.
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I am still able to recite long portions of Alfred Noyes's "The Highwayman" at the slightest provocation."
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Just what it said. I left a message telling him I had a garage full of stuff I needed to get rid of. I knew he'd be in the neighborhood the twenty-fourth, so all I had to do was give him my address. I had to be at work, so I put the fifty bucks in an envelope and taped it to the back door. I came home, he'd emptied the garage, and everything looked great." "So you never actually laid eyes on him and you never got his name?" "I needed the ga..
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My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament.
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I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night?
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there are times when an old rule should be abandoned or a current rule should not be applied.
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The louder he proclaims his honesty, the faster we count the silver.
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It's been my observation, after years in the business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.
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Sauconys
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One immutable law of travel is that one's arrival or departure gate is always at the extreme outer limit of the terminal, especially if your bag is heavy or your shoes have just begun to pinch.
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I don't. I take it he was homeless." Aaron shrugged. "That's my guess. A group of them have been congregating in that grassy patch across the street from the Santa Teresa Inn. Before that, they camped in the park adjacent to the municipal swimming pool." "Who called it in?" He took off his glasses and polished"
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bailiwick.
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clients you'd swear up and down were total, unmitigated slobs, but they're actually the opposite--so hell-bent on 'clean and tidy,' they can't even start. Rather than fail, they give up. Their standards are so high, they're overwhelmed before they start. To them, it's better not even tackling the job.
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linen slipcovers, was as white as whole milk.
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My take on the indigent is that some are there because of temporary setbacks, some by default, and some for lack of an alternative. Some are needy, some are off their meds, some have opted out, some have been ousted from facilities where they might be better served. Many are there for life and not always by personal choice. Alcoholic, addicted, aimless, illiterate, unmotivated, unskilled, or otherwise unable to prosper, they sink to the bot..
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Tragedy can turn your life around if you're open to it.
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I pictured a section of the ladies' auxiliary cookbook for Sudden Death Quick Snacks... Using ingredients one could keep on the pantry shelf in the event of tragedy.
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Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white.
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The only colors I could see were the vibrant primary hues of the pinball machine, where a cartoon spacewoman with big conical breasts straddled the earth in a formfitting blue space suit and thigh-high yellow boots. Behind her, a big red dildo-shaped spaceship was just blasting off for the moon.
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We been in this house forty year," he said. "Bought it back in nineteen and forty-three for four thousand dollar. Bet you never heard of a house that cheap. Now it's worth one hunnert and fifteen thousand. Just the lot we're settin' on. That don't even count the house. They can knock"
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