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“People did not know what she knew, that she was not really a woman but a man, often a fat man, but more often, probably, an old man. The fact that she was an old man made it hard for her to be a young woman. It was hard for her to talk to a young man, for instance, though the young man was clearly interested in her. She had to ask herself, Why is this young man flirting with this old man?”
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“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
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“Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.”
― The Instructions
― The Instructions
“But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know?”
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