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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
Writer
Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Monsters
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What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.
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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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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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A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.
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Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?
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Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.
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I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.
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Me, feeling. What a concept.
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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 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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And here I always thought morality was useless.
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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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And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
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Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
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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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Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.
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I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book
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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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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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Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.
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