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You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
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Magic
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Taylor clapped for attention. “Miss New Mexico, let’s not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don’t even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.
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War. Gorgon spits the word. That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.
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Everything is randomly connected.
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I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.
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When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.
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I refuse to let the past find me here.
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The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.
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There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.
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Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.
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No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?
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One can never go back. One always has to move forward.
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