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If the prodigal son had never left home, the fatted calf would still be alive.
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Looming visage noble American colonel. Courageous, renown of history, Colonel Sanders, image forever accompanied odor of sacrificial meat. Eternal flame offering wind savory perfume roasted flesh.
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She could see it so clear. She could picture every room, inside every house. And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.
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Music is crucial... Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising along in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down ..
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Despite my lifetime of declining rich desserts, my evenings spent jogging, regardless of all my careful moderation and self-discipline--I'm trapped, wadded inside a shell of steel and aluminum. My body, violated in countless places by fragments of broken glass. My low-cholesterol blood rushes to abandon me in hot, leaping spurts. Despite all my care, the heart-attack victim and I will both be just as dead.
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In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
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All these people who say they want a life free from sexual compulsion, I mean forget it. I mean, what could ever be better than sex? For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose . . . watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh. I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut-hosing orgasm. Painting a picture, composing an opera, that's just something you do unti..
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We're all here. Alive and unwell.
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If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.
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Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.
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The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved? The key to salvation is how much attention you get. How high a profile you get. Your audience share. Your exposure. Your name recognition. Your press following. The buzz.
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The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.
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Anyone who's ever flown London to Sydney, seated next to or anywhere in the proximity of a fussy baby, you'll no doubt fall right into the swing of things in Hell. What with the strangers and crowding and seemingly endless hours of waiting for nothing to happen, for you Hell will feel like one long, nostalgic hit a deja vu. Especially if your in-flight movie was The English Patient. In Hell, whenever the demons announce they're going to tre..
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Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead people laughing. Actors crying. All these little doses of emotion. Someone's always spraying the air with their mood.
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These old people. These human ruins.
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By the time you turn thirty, your life is about escaping the person you've become in order to escape the person you've become in order to escape the person you started as.
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Your whole life, she says, you're searching for disaster--you're auditioning disasters--so you'll be well rehearsed when the ultimate disaster finally arrives.
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Come le funi che aprono il sipario di un teatro, ogni tuo sorriso e un debutto. Una prima. Tu che sveli te stesso.
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No matter luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you chooe, you'll nevver be totally happy.
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Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.
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Choosing sides, the captain of the Red Team says, "We'll give you our best -pitcher...." And we'll take the kid who picks his nose and eats it. And we'll take the kid who smells like piss. We'll take the leper and the left-handed Satanist and the HIV-infected hemophiliac and the hermaphrodite and the pedophile. We'll take drug addiction and we'll take JPEGs of the world instead of the world, MP3s instead of music, and we'll trade real life ..
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I love and adore all of my family, except when I'm with them.
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She named me Daisy St. Patience and never wanted to know what name I walked in the door with.
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Buster was Rant was Buddy. Chester was Chet was Dad. Irene was Mom was Reen. How folks lay claim to their loved ones is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
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Driving east, I'm not sure what we're running from. Evie or the police of Mr. Baxter or the Rhea sisters. Or nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up, getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.
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This is how we must look to God.
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If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create.
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We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see what it's going to show us when we get home.
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Believe in me and you shall die, forever.
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hnk 'shy kthyr@ l yfydn 'n n`rfh `n lns ldhyn nHbhm
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Parents, they'll screw you up every time.
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I am my own rakish seducer. I do serve as my own surly, brutish bounder.
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It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness
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The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
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A different toothbrush waits in every time zone.
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Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
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When you're dead probably not even homeless people and retarded people will want to trade you places.
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Amber saw getting infected as the ultimate commitment. Like her and the guy would be doomed to be with each other. Looking back, she figured a brush with death would make her really enjoy her life. Like she would feel more alive.
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Disperse your menacing armies! And relinguish your delicious stores of Nestle Crunch bars.
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You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. We can't give up our concept of who we were. All those adults playing archaeologist at yard sales, looking for childhood artifacts, board games, CandyLand, Twister, they're terrified. Trash becomes holy relics. Mystery Date. Hula Hoops. Our way of getting nostalgic for what we just threw in the trash, it's all because we're afraid to evolve. Grow, change, lose we..
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Marla said, "This isn't like when guys sit backward on the toilet and pretend it's a motorcycle. This is a genuine accident."
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People will just knock each other down to dial 911 and be the big hero.
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Everything you ever love will reject you or die
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According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.
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