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  1. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    he had had some eye work done: a lift to remove the puff and bloat; he would rather look startled and insane than look fifty-six.
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  2. Lorrie Moore _ 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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  3. Lorrie Moore _ 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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  4. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    I'll go see her tonight,' I said. I felt I was a person of my word, and by saying something I could make it so. It was less like integrity perhaps and more like magic.
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  5. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    She recognized the panic at even a moment's boredom that all these piles contained, as well as the unreasonable hopefulness regarding time.
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  6. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindness and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected change of the game. One could hold the cards oneself or not: they would land the same regardless.
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  7. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it.
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  8. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    Perhaps everyone had their own way of preparing to die. Life got you ready.
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  9. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    Her body was a mix of thin and plump, her skin lined and unlined, in that rounding-the-corner-to-fifty way. , he chanted silently, .
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  10. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    I can't believe I just asked you to hold my hand,' said Ira, but Mike had already taken it.
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  11. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star in a full-blown one of her own, he found the sufferers of such crises not only self-indulgent but greedy and demented, and he wished them all weird unnatural deaths with various contraptions easily found in garages.
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  12. Lorrie Moore _ Bark

    Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...
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