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I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.
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They lived in a blurry world, those two, where clear, consistent intentions weren't required.
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Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.
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I'd forgotten this about women: so many conditions. A man shouldn't take them to heart, and yet he does, because he doesn't want to be alone.
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Men who turn their faith into a business owe all of us a steak dinner now and then.
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Instead of filling in the blanks, I wanted to be blank and be filled in.
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reading
books
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You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.
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endless soaring toy-rocket dreams and schemes that let out a sad, weak 'pop' at their high climax point and then flake apart as they tumble toward some thorn patch that's also a hatching ground for baby snakes
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Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.
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I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.
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Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn
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Behind the building rose towering, aged pine trees whose shadows fell crabbed and arthritic across the lawn. The lawn was expansive and in good, green shape. It offered contrast. It was like a fresh haircut on a drunken tramp.
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He looked like a being who'd voyaged back through time from a world that had overcome illness, pain, and conflict.
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Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.
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His voice sounded more sincere in these surroundings, less distorted by pride and pain.
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This was all our world was made of: decomposed visions. Not atoms --- bits of dreams.
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She was already dead, but we were starved for followers and stupefied by the elixir of our own heroism, and so we pretended words could resurrect her.
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Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far.
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The human body is strangely made and sometimes it pays not to think about it too closely.
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Is it possible to be wiser on the page than you are in life? I'm hoping so.
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epistemological
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Purple Noon.
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If you've helped someone die, there is nothing I can tell you. If you haven't, I don't want to tell you. But I must, or what came later may make no sense.
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Philippe,
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The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.
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stranded
uprooted
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Who all these people, so many of them brown? What this ritual unfolding around him? I've never seen a German look as German as Clark did when he assessed his likely assessors. His eyes were like small blue coins behind his glasses.
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I sensed the presence of wizened bachelor potters working in sheds behind their mothers' houses.
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Sometimes I wondered if my problem was liking too many different kinds of
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people, including types that I didn't like much at all but felt I had something to learn or to gain from.
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