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"Take a Tylenol." "No." "Come on. You're driving me crazy. It will make you feel better." "I don't want to take a Tylenol. It means I'm...

He said that the ancient Egyptians weren't humans; that they were another, secret race. And that a secret planet out there between the...

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Hemingway instructed writers to write about fishing in highly specialized language. The more specialized and specific, the greater the...

David's brother Henry, in a moment of contrition and big-heartedness (who said that these two had to be exclusive?) bought the country...

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My office on the second floor of the Administrative Building, which was -- shortly after my arrival -- renamed in memory of a dead...