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It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

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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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Lucky
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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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I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.
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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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Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.
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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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I sighed as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.
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I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?
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Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.
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I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.
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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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...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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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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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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Feeling - what authentic human fun!
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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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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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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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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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