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Me, feeling. What a concept.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Feeling
Feelings
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Concepts

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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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The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
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Or was he saying, Hi! Wanna play? And I did. Of course I did.
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Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.
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I'm a very neat monster.
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A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.
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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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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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And here I always thought morality was useless.
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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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...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.
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I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I can’t believe he did those horrible things . . .
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IN MY LIFELONG STUDY OF HUMAN BEINGS, I HAVE FOUND that no matter how hard they might try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workaday lives of meaningless toil and suffering.
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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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Feeling - what authentic human fun!
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A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.
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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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Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.
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