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"...and the shadows obligingly obliterated what was wrong with his face."

"As he usually did when entering a strange room or arrangement, he thought fondly and separately of his motto, 'Be cool,' which never did him any good."

"She came out of the forest on May 7, 1956, to take her place among her fellow femme fatales."

"Dear me, how you have sacrificed your ethereal beauty for a life of greed and smut."

"He wanted to eat her peachy, creamy complexion with his souvenir spoon from Yellowstone Park." "Her dull gold eyelids lifted heavily and fluttered one final coquettish farewell."

"Formalities having been dispensed with, we got down to some low-class pizza."

"Menacingly bopping down the road, the thug consulted his horoscope and decided to take the day off."

"In your pockets you are fumbling with the keys to a strange place."

"We slipped off into the forest and made love under a terrible apprehension."