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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Inside
Blood
Bigs
Trick
Tricks
Keeping
Deal
Deals

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Me, feeling. What a concept.
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...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.
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...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.
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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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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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Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.
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And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.
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