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I'm a very neat monster.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
Playwright
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Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.
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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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For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.
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It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.
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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
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First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.
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I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I can’t believe he did those horrible things . . .
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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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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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Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.
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Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.
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Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.
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It really is better to be lucky than to be good.
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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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Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.
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I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
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