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  1. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    As much as Sammy Tigertail cherished the Mark Knopfler guitar, embracing it made him think of the casino from whose garish walls it had been lifted. The great Osceola would not have allowed his people to put their name on such a monstrous palace of white greed; more likely he would have set a torch to it.
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  2. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    Well, apparently, I'm trying to fix the entire human race, one flaming asshole at a time.
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  3. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    Eventually she came to believe that her condition was one that couldn't be treated medically; she was doomed to demand more decency and consideration from her fellow humans than they demanded of themselves.
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  4. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    Now, re-reading Macauley by firelight, Sammy Tigertail struggled to envision the noble and fiercely insulated culture so admiringly documented in those pages. He wondered what the journalist-preacher would say about the twenty-first century clans that eagerly beckoned outsiders to tribal gambling halls, tourist traps and drive-through cigarette kiosks. For not the first time the young man contemplated the crushing likelihood that the warrior he aspired to become had no place to go.
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  5. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    It's hopeless, Honey told herself. The cocky telephone hustler would go home to Texas unchanged, as vapid and self-absorbed as ever. That a dolt so charmless could attract both a wife and a girlfriend was as dispiriting as it was inexplicable.
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  6. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    Honey's outlook on men was sinking to a point of abject revulsion. The day was new, yet she'd already been ridiculed by a soulless twit and kidnapped by a reeking pervert.
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  7. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    Her affliction was one of the heart, not the brain. She felt things too deeply and acted on those feelings, and for that there was no known cure. It would explain why all those medicines never worked.
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  8. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    The vista from atop the poinciana was timeless and serene-a long string of egrets crossing the distant 'glades; a squadron of white pelicans circling a nearby bay; a pair of ospreys hovering kitelike above a tidal creek. It was a perfect picture and a perfect silence.
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  9. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    Eugenie Fonda sat on the balcony of her sixth-floor room, fanning her freshly painted toes and watching the sun melt like sorbet into the Gulf of Mexico. Her third Bacardi was sweating cool droplets that snaked down her bare tummy.
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  10. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    Boyd Shreave tore the page from Eugenie Fonda's memoir and, with a contemptuous flourish, wiped his ass with it.
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  11. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    The man's a born straggler, Honey thought, another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would've been an easy snack for a saber-toothed tiger.
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  12. Carl Hiaasen _ Nature Girl

    The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.
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