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  1. Michael Thomas Ford _ Looking For It

    Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.
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  2. Michael Thomas Ford _ Changing Tides

    Fuck!" he said, the purity and forcefulness of the profanity cleansing in its simplicity. Fuck. Odd, he thought, how the word considered the most unutterable should be the one that represented, for many, the greatest pleasure of which the human body was capable. The sacred and the profane, he supposed, the ultimate proof of the perversity of human nature, to make a curse of the very act that kept the species in existence.
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  3. Michael Thomas Ford _ Suicide Notes

    I mean, sure this guy is a little nuts. You have to spend your whole life following bears around. But I get it, too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten trouble for drinking too much and using drugs. They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let them be who he was.
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  4. Michael Thomas Ford _ Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me

    MY FIRST SUMMER living in New York, I couldn't wait for
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  5. Michael Thomas Ford _ Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me

    Where's the skill in throwing a hook loaded with tempting bait into the general vicinity of lots of perpetually hungry creatures with brains the size of mustard seeds? You might as well go to a playground, scatter Reese's peanut butter cups around, and club to death the first four year old foolish enough to approach, believing innocently that such treats are readily available in nature.
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  6. Michael Thomas Ford _ Suicide Notes

    I'm just saying that sometimes forgetting how much things hurt makes you do them again. And that's not always such a hot idea."
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  7. Michael Thomas Ford _ Suicide Notes

    How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evenings? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. But I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.
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  8. Michael Thomas Ford _ Suicide Notes

    Do you know what it's like to have everyone expect you to be the best at something?
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  9. Michael Thomas Ford _ The Road Home

    It's a plant." Burke's father stared at the laptop's screen, peering over his glasses at the photos as Burke brought them up."It's not a plant, Ed," Lucy said, looking at Burke and shaking her head. "It's about the of the image."Burke's father snorted. "Well, it like a plant." He turned to his son. "I'm not saying it's not pretty. But it's a plant.
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  10. Michael Thomas Ford _ Suicide Notes

    If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place.
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  11. Michael Thomas Ford _ The Road Home

    I don't know why anyone wants to get married," said Burke. "I think the whole thing was cooked up by lawyers so they can get rich off of divorce.
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  12. Michael Thomas Ford _ Suicide Notes

    But think about it: Right from the start the odds are against you. It's kind of amazing that any of us ever get here at all.
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