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Birds of America
From Charades: when she was younger she was a frustrated mother, so she is pleased when her children act as is they don't remember
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Bark
Denial, when one was accused, was a life force, and would trump any desire to confess. Perhaps this was the animal strength of the psychopathic brain. Or the psychopathy of the animal brain. An admission of guilt would knock the strength right out of you-making it easier for them to twist your arms behind you and put the handcuffs on.
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Who Will Run the Frog
I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.
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Anagrams
It's two against one out here; we just keep taking turns.
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Birds of America
Let's make our own way,' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.
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Bark
Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.
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Who Will Run the Frog
I feel his lack of love for me.
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Birds of America
Una vida así requería una autoestima exagerada. Suponía tener cantidades excesivas de esperanza y desesperación, y ponerlas al tuntún, como países tercermundistas del continente de las emociones.
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Birds of America
This is Quilty's audition ritual: whenever he feels it is time for it, he calls upon himself to audition for love. He has no script, no reliable sense of stage, just a faceful of his heart's own greasepaint and a relentless need for applause.
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A Gate at the Stairs
Irrigation sprinklers like the skeletons of brontosauruses. -Tassie Keltjin"
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Birds of America: Stories
This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in the people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. They played around and lied to their spouses. But they recycled their newspapers!
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A Gate at the Stairs
Pek çok eski Fransız tüccarı doğayla, özellikle de suyla öyle düşmanca ilişkiler içindeymiş ki isim verdikleri her şey kasvetlerini taşıyordu: bütün hoş tatil yerlerinin adları Fransızcadan Ölümün Kapısı, Dalgaların Mezarı ya da Şeytanın Gölü olarak çevrilmişti.
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