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“my stories actually help them look away.”

“ internationally recognized evening dress, that uniform of civilization, made of the diversity assemblance of homogenous decency.”

“But what in life wasn’t connected to some greater, sadder story”

“… and it is always easier to believe what you already think then to try to change your mind.”

x=x

“ it was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick and he didn’t have the energy to try.”

“And then he opened his eyes”

“ He wished, as he often did, that the entire sequence — the divulging of intimacies, exploring of past — could be sped past, and that he could simply be teleported to the next stage, where the relationship was something soft and pliable and comfortable, we’re both parties’ limits were understood and respected.”

I guess we’re doing this

It was important that I slept defensively, which is similar to driving defensively, a modality of heightened anticipation, ready to waken at the slightest disturbance.”

“ Renouncing individuality, that’s for rich kids. Pascal can go ahead and get rid of himself. But me, thanks, I’ll stay me!”

“the things you do when you don’t know what reality you’ve come to occupy… When you don’t yet know that your fun is over.”

“Was it depression, to which Neanderthals, were so prone, that led to their downfall?”

Under the curse of the Dago Bowling Ball, rolling forever down the alley of fate, doomed to less time colliding with maple than off in the gutters, at best unlikely to pick up even easy spares, Detlef found himself reaching beyond the station house walls that had proved so frail, and out to higher levels of police, state, … federal, as prohibition deepened, as the gunfire down in Chicago reached peaks unheard-of…

No hope of making it through this thing unless read first thing in the morning immediately after taking Adderall and downing coffee.