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...most of what bein human's about is making choices and payin the bills when they come due. Some of the choices are pretty goddam nasty, but that don...more

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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

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It’s about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they’re too bli...more

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Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, ge...more

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A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

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People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

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Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios. They looked like different things, but Ralph thought they were rea...more

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What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.

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Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate. Looking at Bill's back, which...more

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The world has given me a good life since then, I won't deny it, but sometimes I hate the world, anyway. Dick Cheney, that apologist for water boarding...more

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I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.

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When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside...more

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I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to de...more

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Some things you never forgot. She had come to believe that the very things the practical world dismissed as ephemera—things like songs and moonlight a...more

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In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucia...more