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This was just no fun. I wanted my brain back.

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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
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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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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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And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
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Or was he saying, Hi! Wanna play? And I did. Of course I did.
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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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And here I always thought morality was useless.
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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
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Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.
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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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Feeling - what authentic human fun!
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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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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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Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.
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Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
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...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.
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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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It happens incompetence is rewarded more often than not.
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As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.
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Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?
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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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