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Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

Josh Lanyon

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He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.
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I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.
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I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.
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To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.
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Focus on someone else’s problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on you’ll have to live in a world you didn’t make up. Horrible thought.
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Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.
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Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.
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Tiffs among the faggots were apparently the stuff of quiet merriment.
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I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, its foolproof.
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