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On Game Shows, Some People Will Take The Trip To France, But Most People Will Take The Washer And Dryer Pair.
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On Game Shows, Some

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On Game Shows, Some People Will Take The Trip To France, But Most People Will Take The Washer And Dryer Pair.

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Shapes
Might
I'm Not So Much A Good Friend As I'm The Savior Who Wants You To Worship Him Forever.
Good Friend
Forever
Want
With The Novels, I Usually Start From Something In My Own Life That I Can't Resolve, So I Turn It Into A Metaphor And For Months Or Sometimes Years I'll Exhaust All Of My Emotional Reaction To This Issue By Making It Enormous On The Page.
Emotional
Years
Issues
Regret, Daisy Knew, Was The Only Confirmation Of A Well-lived Life. If You Didn't Occasionally Go Too Far, You Weren't Going Anywhere.
Regret
Confirmation
Daisies
At First, The New Owner Pretends He Never Looked At The Living Room Floor.
Rooms
Firsts
Owners
The Most Boring Scenes Are The Scenes Where A Character Is Alone.
Being Alone
Character
Boring
Help Me Give Up My Addiction To Hope.
Giving Up
Addiction
Helping
If I Turn Up Suicided In The Morning, It Was Murder.
Morning
Murder
Turns
Maybe This Is Why So Many Serial Killers Work In Pairs. It's Nice Not To Feel Alone In A World Full Of Victims Or Enemies. It's No Wonder Waltraud Wagner, The Austrian Angel Of Death, Convinced Her Friends To Kill With Her. It Just Seems Natural. You And Me Against The World.
Death
Nice
Angel
I Don't Want To Die Without A Few Scars.
Bravery
Want
Scar
Love Is A Skill You Learn.
Love Is
Skills
As The Child Outlives The Father,so Must The Character Bury The Author.
Children
Father
Character
You Can Only Hold A Smile For So Long, After That It's Just Teeth.
Smile
Long
Teeth
The Career Of A Movie Star Consists Of Helping Everyone Else Forget Their Troubles. Using Charm And Beauty And Good Cheer To Make Life Look Easy.
Stars
Cheer
Careers
My Life Has Been About Living Like A Monk And Looking Like A Priest So That People Will Come Up To Me And Tell Me Their Most Appalling Stories. They Have To Make Their Confession To Somebody, And It Might As Well Be Me.
People
Stories
Might
No Matter What Happens, It’s Always Now.
Matter
No Matter What
Rant
You Kill Strangers Deliberately So You Don't Accidentally Kill The People You Love.
People
Stranger
It's Not Love Or Anything, But I Think I Like You, Too.
Friendship
I Like You
Thinking
For Six Months I Couldn't Sleep. With Insomnia, Nothing's Real. Everything Is Far Away. Everything Is A Copy Of A Copy Of A Copy.
Real
Sleep
Insomnia
You Love Me. You Ignore Me. You Save My Life, Then You Cook My Mother Into Soap.
Mother
Soap
Ignore Me
I Still Love Him So Much I'll Hide Any Amount Of Conjugated Estrogen In His Food. So Much I'll Do Anything To Destroy Him.
I Still Love Him
Estrogen
Stills
I Thought Why Not Write A Kind Of Mystery, Murder, Thriller Book, But Use Romance Language Where The Language Plays Completely Against The Very Dark Subject Matter, That Very Strange Murderous Plot, But Use That Harlequin Romance Language.
Book
Writing
Dark
Where Would Jesus Be If No One Had Written The Gospels?
Jesus
Fight Club Novel
Written
I Used Rebellion As A Way To Hide Out. We Use Criticism As A Fake Participation.
Fake
Criticism
Use
Part Of Her Doing Suicide Intervention Is My Caseworker Has To Mix Me Another Gin And Tonic.
Suicide
Gin And Tonic
Gin
A Moment Is All You Can Expect From Perfection.
Perfection
Moments
We're Consumers. We Are By-products Of A Lifestyle Obsession. Murder, Crime, Poverty, These Things Don't Concern Me. What Concerns Me Are Celebrity Magazines, Television With 500 Channels, Some Guy's Name On My Underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...
Names
Guy
Poverty
After Long Enough, Everyone In The World Will Be You Enemy.
Long
Enemy
World
By The Time You're Thirty, Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself.
Worst Enemy
Age
Choke
The First Time We Meet Another Person An Insidious Little Voice In Our Heads Says, "i Might Wear Eyeglasses Or Be Chunky Around The Hips Or A Girl, But At Least I'm Not Gay Or Black Or A Jew." Meaning: I May Be Me- But At Least I Have The Good Sense Not To Be You.
Girl
Gay
Voice
Think Of A Rock Polisher, One Of Those Drums, Goes Round And Round, Rolls Twenty-four/seven, Full Of Water And Rocks And Gravel. Grinding It All Up. Round And Round. Polishing Those Ugly Rocks Into Gemstones. That’s The Earth. Why It Goes Around. We’re The Rocks. And What Happens To Us—the Drama And Pain And Joy And War And Sickness And Victory And Abuse—why, That’s Just The Water And Sand To Erode Us. Grind Us Down. To Polish Us Up, Nice And Bright.
Pain
War
Nice
From Famous Artists To Building Contractors, We All Want To Leave Our Signature. Our Lasting Effect. Your Life After Death. We All Want To Explain Ourselves. Nobody Wants To Be Forgotten.
Artist
Signatures
Want
For This Moment, Nothing Matters. Look Up Into The Stars And You're Gone.
Stars
Flirty
Looks
Didn't I Realize That Each Of Us Is A Sacred, Unique Snowflake Of Special Unique Specialness?
Unique
Special
Sacred
We Can Spend Our Lives Letting The World Tell Us Who We Are…or We Can Decide For Ourselves.
World
Who We Are
Choke
Skinny Guys Fight Till They're Burger.
Fighting
Men
Guy
The Same As Real Life, There Is No Happily Ever After.
Real
Real Life
Ever After
I Admire Addicts. In A World Where Everybody Is Waiting For Some Blind, Random Disaster Or Some Sudden Disease, The Addict Has The Comfort Of Knowing What Will Most Likely Wait For Him Down The Road. He's Taken Some Control Over His Ultimate Fate, And His Addiction Keeps The Cause Of His Death From Being A Total Surprise.
Taken
Fate
Knowing
As If You Cut Open A Rag Doll With A Sill Name, And Found Inside:real Intestines, Real Lungs, A Beating Heart And Blood. A Lot Of Hot, Sticky Blood.
Real
Heart
Cutting
Really, Just Looking Around, You Feel A Twinge Of Pity For The Poor Souls Who Succeeded In Getting Past The Pearly Gates. One Can't Help But Picture The Lackluster Vip Lounge In Heaven, A Kind Of Nonalcoholic Ice-cream Social Starring Harriet Beecher Stowe And Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly Anyone's Idea Of A "with-it" Social Register.
Past
Ice Cream
Ideas
If You Died Right Now, How Would You Feel About Your Life?
Feels
Right Now
Died
Marla Tells Me How In The Wild You Don't See Old Animals Because As Soon As They Age, Animals Die. If They Get Sick Or Slow Down, Something Stronger Kills Them. Animals Aren't Meant To Get Old. Marla Lies Down On Her Bed And Undoes The Tie On Her Bathrobe, And Says Our Culture Has Made Death Something Wrong. Old Animals Should Be An Unnatural Exception. Freaks.
Death
Lying
Animal
To Some Of Us, The Nights Are Too Long. To Some, The Days.
Night
Long
It's Not Living Alone If You Keep A Rifle Under The Bed.
Bed
Rifles
Living Alone
If You Start In The Pit Of Despair With These Profane, Awful Things, Even A Glimmer Of Hope Or Awareness Is Going To Occur That's Much Brighter Coming From This Dark, Awful Beginning.
Dark
Despair
Pits
Anything You Can Aquire Is Only Another Thing You'll Lose.
Loses
Trust Me, The Being-dead Part Is Much Easier Than The Dying Part. If You Can Watch Much Television, Then Being Dead Will Be A Cinch. Actually, Watching Television And Surfing The Internet Are Really Excellent Practice For Being Dead.
Practice
Surfing
Dying
If I Can't Be Beautiful, I Want To Be Invisible.
Beautiful
Want
Invisible
You Have No Idea What It Is Like To Constantly Disappoint People. You See It The Moment You Meet Them. You See In Their Eyes That They Expected Something So Entirely Different, And Here They Are Meeting You.
Eye
Ideas
People
You Gain Power By Pretending To Be Weak.
Power
Gains
Weak
Game Shows Are Designed To Make Us Feel Better About The Random, Useless Facts That Are All We Have Left Of Our Education.
Feel Better
Games
Useless
How Everything You Ever Love Will Reject You Or Die. Everything You Ever Create Will Be Thrown Away. Everything You're Proud Of Will End Up As Trash.
Rejects You
Proud
Trash
The World Of American Politics Is More Contentious Than It Has Ever Been In My Lifetime.
World
Lifetime
Contentious
Just Let Yourself Be Broken And Humiliated. Just Your Whole Life, Keep Telling People, I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry.
Sorry
People
Broken
I Have To Have Everything In My Life Completely Fixed And Perfect And Cleaned Up And I Have To Be Complete With Everyone In My Life And I Have Seven Days In Which To Do That. So I Might Make It To Day Three Or Four, But I've Never Made It All The Way To Day Seven.
Perfect
Might
Way
I Spent My Life Attacking Everything Because I Was Too Afraid To Risk Creating Anything.
Creating
Risk
Attacking
Someday You Will Die, And Until You Know That, You're Useless To Me.
Useless
Someday
Knows
Maybe The Truth Is I Really Want To Like You Instead.
Want
Like You
Truth Is
An Important Part Of Building A New Culture Was Allowing People To Complain About Their Past. At First, The More They Complained, The Worse The Past Would Seem. But By Venting, People Could Start To Resolve The Past. By Bitching And Bitching And Bitching, They Could Exhaust The Drama Of Their Own Horror Stories. Grow Bored. Only Then Could They Accept A New Story For Their Lives. Move Forward.
Drama
Moving
Past
A Good Story Isn't The One That Shuts Everyone Down And Sort Of Leaves Them In Silent Awe. A Good Story Is One That, Even Before You Finish The Anecdote, You Can See Their Eyes Shining Because It Has So Resonated With Something From Their Own Lives That Everyone In The Group Has A Version Of The Same Story And They Cannot Wait To Tell It, And That They're Going To Compete To Make Their Version Even More Extreme Than Your Version. So Your Version Is Just A Seed.
Eye
Waiting
Shining
Without Pain, Without Sacrifice We Would Have Nothing. Like The First Monkey Shot Into Space.
Pain
Sacrifice
Space
Jump To The Day We'll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter. Jump To The Day Another House Will Stand Here And The People Living There Won't Know We Ever Happened.
People
House
Matter
Nevertheless, If You Ask Me, Most People Have Children Just As Their Own Enthusiasm About Life Begins To Wane. A Child Allows Us To Revisit The Excitement We Once Felt About, Well... Everything. A Generation Later, Our Grandkids Bump Up Our Enthusiasm Yet Again. Reproducing Is A Kind Of Booster Shot To Keep Us Loving Life.
Children
Loving Life
People
Of All The Priceless Objects Left Behind, This Is What We Rescue. These Artifacts. Memory Cues. Useless Souvenirs. Nothing You Could Auction. The Scars Left From Happiness.
Memories
Useless
Auctions
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