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She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.

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There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when they've got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemica...more

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Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy’s tired of you, so what, there’s guys all over the pl...more

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The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

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A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

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Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

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You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye

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Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI ...more

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The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

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He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was bu...more

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Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

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I look at him with the nostalgic affection men are said to feel for their wars, their fellow veterans. I think, I once threw things at this man. I thr...more

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I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of br...more