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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
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Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Lucky
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Or was he saying, Hi! Wanna play? And I did. Of course I did.
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And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?
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Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.
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I'm a very neat monster.
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Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
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It happens incompetence is rewarded more often than not.
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I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.
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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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I sighed as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.
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This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.
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It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.
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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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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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For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.
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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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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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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 know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?
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