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I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love.
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She is suspicious and fearless and her progress is alarming.
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Papa had looked bad last time. This time he looked like Death's rectum.
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And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice.
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Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass."
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Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.
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I had maggot brains that night and may have imagined half of it, and misunderstood the rest.
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My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.
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It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.
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'Show off' was no insult in our family, but Arty had a way of turning 'sweetheart' into a thumb in the eye.
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We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
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They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
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Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.
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She blurbed through her Moms-All-Purpose-Adjustable-List-Of-Horrors that might have happened whenever a child is out of sight.
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Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.
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The molasses voice pours into the sponge ear of the microphone and is transformed into silent, pulsing waves that radiate over a hundred miles.
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The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort
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It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.
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I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.
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In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.
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When Rhonda replayed that day in her mind, the only thing she felt good about was bashing Tim "Tweezer" Painton on the head and rolling him into the river. It was the right thing to do.
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How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.
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Tweezer Painton was a burly ten-year-old with a glower built into his square mug. His name came from his hobby of grabbing individual hairs on his victims' heads and yanking them out for fun.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Katherine Dunn
Born:
October 24, 1945
Died:
May 11, 2016
(aged 70)
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