I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.


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I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
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… [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me naïve...
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One thing about English-language bookstores in the age of Amazon is that it assumes that everybody h...
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When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.
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Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shi...
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the lower bunks, both of us longing to be pinned. “You kids think you invented sex,” my mother w...
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Someone in our family had taken to wiping his or her ass on the bath towels. What made this exceptio...
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The whole notion of the nursing home was something dreamed up by people like my mother; American wom...
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The thing to remeber is that more than anything in this world, these colored people wish they were w...
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the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentle...
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The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing some...
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You have how many children in your family?" the teacher would ask. "I'm guessing you must be Catholi...
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What are you, tap dancing up there? You want a put on a show, do you? Well, the theater's closed for...
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You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, j...
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My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for _who_ I am. Concentrate too hard...
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They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of...
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Motherfucker, you haven't got the fucking balls God gave a goddamned church mouse. You crawled out o...
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Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertai...
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He has a passport," my classmates would whisper. "Quick, let's run before he judges us!
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Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where ...
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We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy han...
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If nothing else, life in the suburbs promised that you might go from day to day without finding shit...
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Motherfucker, you try that again and I'll come in there with a fucking coat hanger and give you some...
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I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching t...
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As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
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The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.
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I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down m...
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I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.
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What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was...
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I was a smart-ass, born and raised. This had been my curse and would continue to be so.
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College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for...
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between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always,...
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Shit is the tofu of cursing.
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I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective c...
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Why refer to Lady Crack Pipe or Good Sir Dishrag when these things could never live up to all that t...
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When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had no...
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If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven...
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The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as lo...
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Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.
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That man tried to picka my frienda’s pocketoni!
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They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should...
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All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is sa...
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He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.
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