Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
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She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.
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All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.
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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting.... On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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