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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
Writer
Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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Take
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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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And here I always thought morality was useless.
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Me, feeling. What a concept.
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Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.
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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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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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...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.
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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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been there done that, bought the t-shirt Chapter 2
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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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Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.
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Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?
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For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.
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I'm a very neat monster.
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Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
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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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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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It happens incompetence is rewarded more often than not.
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Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?
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Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.
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