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- Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was…
- [The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both…
- There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.
- I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back…
- Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.
- Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her…
- All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for…
- Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart,…
- Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can…
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