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• We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
• As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us…
• A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.
• It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
• Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.
• A society manufactures the heroes it requires.
• Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you…
• Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks…
• Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to…
• New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for…
• In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought…
• It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be…

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