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It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the...

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Happy Thanksgiving, he says, handing me my ticket. Let's see some dead people.

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He has ears, and I will not hear.

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I hate games I can't win.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

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We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.

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Is your voice value delivering the image you wish to convey? Is your voice coming across as smart, friendly, and positive or ignorant, rude, and negative?

Do you know- he began, then stopped. He looked down at his clenched hands, then, not at me. A blue stone winked on one knuckle, bright as a teardrop.

It's like a little fortress, where the most private part of you lives - maybe it's your soul, maybe just that bit that makes you yourself and not anyone else.

People come and people go and we know this happens, yet we get such a shock when it does.

his dad "putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them." He watched with fascination as his father tried to get a waveform line on

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there is an angel called Metatron.

But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering...

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