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A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.

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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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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
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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 am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes 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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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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Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.
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It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.
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