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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
Writer
Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Lucky
Better
Really
Good

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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
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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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...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.
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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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Could this be the Apocalypse ?
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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 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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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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Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.
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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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...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.
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The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
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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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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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