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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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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
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Miami
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Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
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I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.
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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'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it. --Dexter
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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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Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.
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you can’t use logic on human behavior.
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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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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
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It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.
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She really did like me, the idiot.
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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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They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.
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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 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'm a very neat monster.
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After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.
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This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.
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