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Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
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Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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It really is better to be lucky than to be good.
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What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.
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Killing makes me feel good.
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...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.
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I sighed as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.
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But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.
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Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.
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And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
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When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.
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This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.
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Feeling - what authentic human fun!
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As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.
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They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.
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But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am as I said, no rest for the wicked.
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But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.
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A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.
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I looked around the store and what I saw was not very encouraging. There were rows and rows of violent toys...aisle after aisle of training devices for recreational slaughter. No wonder our world was such a mean and violent place...if we teach children that killing is fun, can we really be surprised if now and then someone is smart enough to learn?
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After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.
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In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.
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For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.
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