For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your hear...
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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
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To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.
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Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.
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... it would matter ... to the tens of thousands of young Americans ... who would ... be invited to put on uniforms, fly to the other side of the worl...
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
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Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster
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FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
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A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.
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People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.
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Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
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What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.
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When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside...
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Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and onto the railbed, where the weeds and ...
