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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
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Miami
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Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.
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you can’t use logic on human behavior.
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The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
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I'm a very neat monster.
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This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.
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Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.
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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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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
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Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
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I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?
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Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?
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I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.
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And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?
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Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
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I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.
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I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.
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I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it. --Dexter
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IN MY LIFELONG STUDY OF HUMAN BEINGS, I HAVE FOUND that no matter how hard they might try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workaday lives of meaningless toil and suffering.
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