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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
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One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.
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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
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It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.
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...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within.
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I wonder if Chupacabras are...baby Mothmen?
