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There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this damnable depression like an ocean, unsurmountable. It swallows...

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and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.

Childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail...

The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.

Newly Found Sugary Spill: Tastes Like Dried Spit or Old Soda