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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.
“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
“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
“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
“There’s a whole lot of people who care more about being called a racist than they care about addressing the institution.”
― Those We Thought We Knew
― Those We Thought We Knew
“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
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