Jay McInerney
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His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as... 
Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... 
Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious
and kind. May her touch be soft l... 
A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight ... 
A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight ... 
A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight ... 
A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight ... 
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
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Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the... 
Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's th... 
Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the ... 
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She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart y... 
I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said.
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And when he winked at her, she knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that
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He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspecte... 
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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for... 
Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?"
I am agreed, and would I had given him the best horse in Padua to begin his wooing that would thorou... 
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and ... 
She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit. 
Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... bef... 
Did she know, could she know what it meant to him when she turned to him, when she opened herself to... 
And when Jace was ten years old, Valentine killed him. Michael,
Eleanor Roosevelt on the changes in John F. Kennedy that led her to drop her opposition to his nomin... 
She lends her pen,
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the... 
Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, sh... 
She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, f... 
He laughed and was about to retort when she grabbed his collar and pulled him into her. She clamped ... 
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He reached out, capturing her hand in his. He laced his fingers casually through hers.
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When she found a place of her own
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The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself... 
He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months ... 
The Old Woman and the Physician
An old woman having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician ... 
She narrowed her eyes at him. She wanted to tell him that it was his fault, that she would ne... 
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in ... 
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Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i... 
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Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's c... 
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My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do. 
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You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your so... 
If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to tha... 
When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you... 
A lot of you cared, just not enough. 
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If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote... 
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Martha Stewart stuffed and roasted canaries and found they
could no longer sing. 
You might get only one shot. So shoot. You know who said that?"
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