Jeff Lindsay (writer) Quotes

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What do you want a clock for? To find out what time it is, I said. I think that's the usual purpose.

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And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

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It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.

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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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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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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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I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

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I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

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I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?

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First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

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