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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
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Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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Brain
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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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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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Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
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After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.
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Killing makes me feel good.
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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'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 thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.
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And here I always thought morality was useless.
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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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I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.
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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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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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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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Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?
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She really did like me, the idiot.
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When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.
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And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.
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