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Evenings and Weekends

by Oisín McKenna

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"Pauline, she thinks. Now she had been big, and when Rosaleen was with her, she felt big as well. She had felt as if she were expanding, stretching the outer walls of her life. Yes, that's what it was like. The pleasure of knowing Pauline had been the simple pleasure of a stretch in the morning, reaching towards the sun, getting longer, blood rushing to dormant bits of muscle." — Dec 20, 2025 08:56AM

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“Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

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“I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

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