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I’m ten years away from the corner you laugh on
With your pals, Maggie McGeeney and Jean Duff.
The three of you bend from the waist, holding each other, or your knees, and shriek at the pavement,
Your polka-dot dress round your legs. Marilyn.

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As long as it works, who cares if everyone knows how it’s done?

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When I brood over these marvellous pleasures I have enjoyed, I would be tempted to offer God a prayer of thanks if I knew he could hear me. Praised may he be for not creating me a cotton merchant, a vaudevillian, or a wit.

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Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

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Guess what you got, buddy. You got a little something I like to call a non-problem. You do not have an issue that you need to address. Trust me on this one.

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Today, for example, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them close their love-drowned eyes.

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War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it. The crueller it is the sooner it will be over.

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The idea that beer has calories in it is astonishing to me. My brain has never been able to - I mean, it’s a liquid, it’s not a food.

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Do all the talking, you know I’m gonna let you;
Time is a river that’s flowing in me now.
Into the darkness, chasing the sound of you:
Life is a journey, don’t you try and make it on your own.

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When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted, for we thought to see an author and found a man.

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I love those decadent wenches who do so trouble my dreams.

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The visiting Victorian doctor could do little to treat a patient and instead tried their best to please.

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When it doubt, be of service.

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I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella.

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Lettuce is divine, although I’m not sure it’s really a food.

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She had stopped to listen with a smile on her wide lips. Now she’s just still. The bubbles proceed with their quiet bursting around her arms.

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The Lord is a man of war.

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It’s been far too long since she was moved like that, and not least by a spectacle she could write in binary tonight and reproduce again and again, tomorrow, the next evening, the next.

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I don’t set out to systematically dismantle like I used to.

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.