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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
Novelist
Playwright
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Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Fun
Brain
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Wanted

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For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.
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What a terrible thing life can be.
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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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I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.
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I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.
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...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.
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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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Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.
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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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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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Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.
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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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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
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you can’t use logic on human behavior.
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Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.
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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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It happens incompetence is rewarded more often than not.
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Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.
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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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