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Tiffany got up early and lit the fires. When her mother came down, she was scrubbing the kitchen flo...

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you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care...

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Tim O'Brien (author)The Things They Carried

In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to ...

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Anton ChekhovThe Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov

It was Valentine's Day and I had spent the day in bed with my life partner, Ketel One. The two of us...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

I looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of cou...

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Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is act...

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Edward de BonoI Am Right You Are Wrong: From This to the New Renaissance: From Rock Logic to Water Logic

Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and colle...

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Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking ...

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For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

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John KeatsLetters of John Keats

As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justi...

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Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is ...

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You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...

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But you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest?GWENDOLEN: But y...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

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Philip K. DickI Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfo...

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