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Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.
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Originality is undetected plagiarism.
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I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.
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A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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Why don't we just sit and stare and do nothing? Nothing at all for a while I like the way you smile I could be your state and I could be your nation It doesn't get better than home, now does it?
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.
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What the Yankees need is a second base coach.
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Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.