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"...with sad eyes and a smile as wide as Wilshire Boulevard."
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"The old man licked his lips watching me, over and over again, drawing one lip slowly across the other with a funeral absorption, like an undertaker dry-washing his hands."
— 19 minutes ago
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"I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider"
— 25 minutes ago
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"I lit the cigarette and blew a lungful at him and he sniffed at it like a terrier at a rathole."
— 28 minutes ago
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The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out-of-work show girl uses her last good pair of stockings."
— 35 minutes ago
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"A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wildflowers fighting for life on a bare rock."
— 36 minutes ago
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"They smelled as overpowering as boiling alcohol under a blanket."
— 38 minutes ago
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"The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men."
— 39 minutes ago
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"The light had an unreal greenish color, like light filtered through an aquarium tank."
— 40 minutes ago
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"It opened into a sort of vestibule that was about as warm as a slow oven."
— 41 minutes ago
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"She bit it [thumb] and sucked slowly, turning it around in her mouth like a baby with a comforter."
— 42 minutes ago
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"Then she lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theater curtain."
— 43 minutes ago
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"...and she had little sharp predatory teeth, as white as fresh orange pith and shiny as porcelain."
— 45 minutes ago
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Quoting all the similes because good lord. Here we go:
"Beyond the garage werr some decorative trees trimmed as carefully as poodle dogs."
— 47 minutes ago
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"Beyond the garage werr some decorative trees trimmed as carefully as poodle dogs."










