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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.

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Barry Lyga
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 11
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Complicated
Taste
Men
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If I think she' hot and it turns out she's a psychopath, then what does that say about me? I'm totally not ready for that kind of therapy.
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Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.
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Homecoming's stupid. And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
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I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.
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What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
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We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.
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Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself--over and over--not to do it.
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I suddenly realize that I'm naked, which shouldn't bother me since it's the phone, but for some reason it does. How's it hanging? Kyra asks and now I think I'm blushing. It's just an expression, but jeez!
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A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
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Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply Life did not mean pain.
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At the end of the day, it's a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It's a psersonal test every time I step into the batter's box: Can I do better than the last time? And that's why I love it.
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Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
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And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.
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Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
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What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.
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Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.Anger was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.
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You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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(Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.
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Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton? The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.
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