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I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years.

Blake Butler

I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years.
BLAKE BUTLER

Brain Girlfriend Years
Goebel’s testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.
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Charismatic Country Engrossing Private Right
Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?
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Book Enough Reality Time
When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth.
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Alive Book Earth Kids Sense Wall
I logically don’t believe that all this stuff [surrounding us] is generated from dust. But I’m also not like “Jesus Christ came down to save us.” It’s almost selfish to think that human beings, on this plane of reality, are the end of it.
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Being Believe Christ Generated Human Jesus Stuff
I’m really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change,
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Change Children Dad Different Mom
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel’s Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon.
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Forhead Grief Men Reading
The things that language stands for do not require humans, and in fact are often trampled down by humans.
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Human Language Requires Things
My love is inside me where my fat was.
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Fat Inside Love
Another required keys. Another was a simple side latch. Another was strictly ornamental. Another you could open by whispering the right thing to it at the right time, which is the type of lock most humans have.
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Another Type Humans REquired Strictly
What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don’t ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it can use to propel itself further.
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Jesus Memories Powerful
I use the word “god” a lot, and I’m not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don’t believe that when we die, that’s it. It’s almost like a logical faith.
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Believe Jesus Selfish Word
I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.
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Back Because Can Rashy Smartass
And so language for me doesn’t reflect the world, it extends the world, so that it becomes larger and more fantastic and less mired in this school shooting bullshit. It actually builds a future – that’s how evolution occurs.
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Evolution Extent Failure Fantastic
It is important not to show too many inches at once.
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Important Inches Shows

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