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Surviving Is the only warWe can afford

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UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can't get out of bed.It's so...more

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And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a b...more

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Potential has a shelf life.

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Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are.

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By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I ...more

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He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your o...more

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Sauve qui peut. To survivewe’d all turn thiefand rascal, or so says the fox,with her coat of an elegant scoundrel,her white knife of a smile,who knows...more

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She’s a lean vixen: I can seethe ribs, the slytrickster’s eyes, filled with longing and desperation, the skinnyfeet, adept at lies.Why encourage the n...more

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Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that’s our fond belief.But remember ...more

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You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

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You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

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But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and ...more

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I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

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A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.