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“It is a difficult thing, you see, to strive to be a good man. The whole world will try their level best to make you swerve, to bend your principles.
“I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.”
― The Same River Twice: A Memoir
― The Same River Twice: A Memoir
“In my dating career, I had found that mothers seemed to like me; fathers did not. Period. So I tended to avoid contact with the dads. I assumed that this wasn't personal. Rather, it was simply the fact that I was a hormone-laden, male teenager with a fully functional penis, who happened to be in the presence of their daughters.”
― A Brilliant Death
― A Brilliant Death
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O’Connor,”
― Out of the Woods
― Out of the Woods
“Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on.”
― Out of the Woods
― Out of the Woods
“I was not the equal of my cousins in athletic ability or good looks, but I'd like to think God evened the score by granting me a modicum of common sense, which sometimes seems to be sadly missing in most descendants of Walter Kaminski, who have shown a tendency to live for the moment and think with their peckers.”
― A Brilliant Death
― A Brilliant Death
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