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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
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Lucky
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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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Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.
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Killing makes me feel good.
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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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...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.
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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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Feeling - what authentic human fun!
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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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I sighed as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.
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Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
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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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Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.
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Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?
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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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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
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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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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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A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.
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I'm a very neat monster.
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It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.
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