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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
Monsters
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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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This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.
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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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And here I always thought morality was useless.
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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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The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
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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 had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.
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She really did like me, the idiot.
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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 sighed as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.
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It happens incompetence is rewarded more often than not.
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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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It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.
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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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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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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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Could this be the Apocalypse ?
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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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