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I sink down into my body as in...

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing . I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.

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When I am lonely for boys it's...

When I am lonely for boys it's their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don't move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.

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The true story is vicious and ...

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don't ever ask for the true story.

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We slept in what had once been...

We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

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And she finds it difficult to ...

And she finds it difficult to believeЂ'that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

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Ten days after the war ended, ...

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

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Beginnings are sudden, but als...

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

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I would like to be the air tha...

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

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Snowman wakes before dawn....

Snowman wakes before dawn.

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There is more than one kind of...

There is more than one kind of freedom,' said Aunt Lydia. 'Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

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There's an epigram tacked to m...

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- 'Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pГўtГ©.

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The only way you can write the...

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

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She knows herself to be at the...

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

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Canadians are fond of a good d...

Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.

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Your hand is a warm stone I ho...

Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.

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The heart of Jesus glowed, bec...

The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.

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I felt white, drained of blood...

I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.

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The use of 'religion' as an ...

The use of 'religion' as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

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Gardening is not a rational ac...

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

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Choice of evils debates always...

Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....