within the circles where i travel

around here, within the circles where i travel, the more things look like gold, the more likely they're truly covered with gold paint.
all those perfect lives and perfect marriages ... all false and fraudelent.
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the mallet of sarcasm versus the fine silversmithing hammer of irony ...
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i'm there yesterday.
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black russian orthodox ...
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manful manliness ...
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i.o.u. not one red cent. maybe i.o.u. some blue cents ... and i'll pay you in a blue moon.
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take five ... take ten ... hell, take as many as you want!
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we won't sleep.
if we do, the clowns will eat us.
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out beyond yonder ...
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please
don't tease
the water otter.
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the opposite of a sacred heart?
why -- a profane heart, of course.
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the square root of all evil.
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if food is like love, our portions have been too small.
and what we ate was junk food.
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on the good ship lollygag ...
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love and alcohol and clothes on the floor ...
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he would rather be enlightened than saved.
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one of the duller, if not the dullest, knives in the drawer.
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there was a high school in a town named mohawk.
the nickname of its athletic teams, by the way, was the haircuts.