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We run a car wreck photo every week, whether we have a car wreck or not. That's our golden rule.

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Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.

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Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton...

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Which bloody misbegotten Card takes the liberty of recasting in his own insane tongue. As the bloody bog-rat's just done.

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It was not until the next evening that he discovered he had a page from Leviticus stuck to his back.

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Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?

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The ocean twitched like a vast cloth spread over snakes.

Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx

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Born: August 22, 1935 (age 89)

Bio: Edna Ann Proulx is an American journalist and author. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.

Known for:

Barkskins (2016)
The Shipping News (1993)
Brokeback Mountain (1997)
Close Range: Wyoming Stories (1999)
Accordion Crimes (1996)

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