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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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The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.
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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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Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?
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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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And so as much as I can, I care about her, dear Deborah. It's probably not love, but I would rather she were happy.
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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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...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.
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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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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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A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.
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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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I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.
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...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.
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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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Feeling - what authentic human fun!
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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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And here I always thought morality was useless.
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I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.
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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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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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