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I'd watch his smooth chest rise and fall with each steady breath, I'd watch the pulsating of his stomach when he laughed, and I'd never forget to make a comment or two about the wispy trail of grey fuzz that lined up perfectly centre with his body - ...

Freakhouse

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Ins...

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage...

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and p...

Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader

If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan’s request? Couldn’t Laura, with a little doing, keep stringing together line after line of words and construct, in time, a novel? It seemed logical, b...

The Novelist

Afternoon experience: autographing exposed legs, outstretched in lines like matchsticks. Afternoon epiphany: Those with smooth, hairless legs would soon lose all evidence of my contact when the sweat causes the ink from the marker to run. I am epheme...

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

...I am uncontrollable and dangerous. But of course I do not say this to Jake, mostly because he has never been locked up and doesn't understand what it feels like to lose control, and he only wants to watch the football game now, and none of this me...

The Silver Linings Playbook

[last lines] [the last lines show scenes of the murder intercut with b&w shots of Juliet being taken away by her parents on the ship. Pauline and Juliet are sobbing and screaming for each other; and the girls scream as they beat Honorah Parker to dea...

Heavenly Creatures

[last lines] [last lines excluding archive footage] Ben Bradlee: You know the results of the latest Gallup Poll? Half the country never even heard of the word Watergate. Nobody gives a shit. You guys are probably pretty tired, right? Well, you should...

All the President's Men

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me. I loathe Somnus, that black-masked headsman binding me to the block; and if in the course of year...

Vladimir Nabokov

Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.

The Confessions of Edward Day

The line between the allure of liberty and the menace of of anarchy is often blurred." From: Caspian Diary

Caspian Diary

See how long and bold my life line is? It's an indication of my sexual prowess.

The Curse Keepers

Life handed them true love; she just couldn't decide if it was a gift or a curse.

Crossing the Line

Wyatt didn't want it, but without his permission, his heart started beating again. It had always beat for Tabitha.

Crossing the Line

With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.

Corcitura

Prayer is your attempt to bring your will and desires in line with God’s will.

A Dad After God's Own Heart

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Deeply Odd

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

Effortless

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don’t want to be in his line of sight when he does.

The Ferryman

...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field...

A Familiar Rain