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Getting over being drunk makes you wonder why the hell you did that.

Bo could live with his contradictions. They were what made him whole.

It whispered a promise of great wealth, and I was listening.

I pass my hands over my eyes, mired by the miti-
gation of routine.

My mother said a woman’s handbag is more private than her body.

Silence, it turned out, was a thing you could buy.

Early on, Castro learned and opposed the unfairness of things.

Tonight these writers lower their eyes and silence their words.

His beginnings, his genesis as a writer, and the fateful connections between life and art.

And so it was clear that Mia was still basically a teenager.

Your writing may need to be ruthless or amoral to be original.

How many times had I passed it in a taxicab or walked within sight of it?

Mostly, 90 percent of the time, the big ones trigger the bad attacks.

Did you hear about the candidate who grabbed Hugh’s dick?

Let us not forget the desuetude of nailed-shut carousels.

Of the sixteen candidates only eight would make the final cut.

Now he’s grazing my books. The Bible is his favorite so far. He is a goat.

He got his wife off a German farmer, for whom he went to work one day.

Our dog had held down what we had by pressing his belly to the floors.

Ira and Ada are stepsiblings. Within a month they were sleeping together.

Atomic bomb. How could those two words be said together?

I felt nothing, which was cool, totally cool with me. For my blood was cola.

Diane Kirsten Martin

I felt awful about imposing on him, but I was desperate to see the Derby.

God doesn’t punish wrongdoing. Rewards multiply if tended to in secret.

I was creating art instead of counting beans like everyone else.

Their hands were acting as airfoils, producing lift, not drag.

“Silence can be difficult, and we’re silent the whole time,” she said.

The pictures were taken in the woods, naked from the waist down.