Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They’ll just spring on you like a ninja.
BARRY LYGAI do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher’s mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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Unreal. I’m feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.
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And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we’re us.
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Yes,” Howie said solemnly. “I can teach you how to be more ‘street’”. “For God’s sake…” “Or is it ‘urban’? I can’t remember. Anyway, I can teach you, grasshopper. Or hip-hopper.
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And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? ‘Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I’ll just take them with me…. Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?
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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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…She’s not buying [the lie], but there’s nothing else on the shelves.
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Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
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We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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At the end of the day, it’s a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It’s a psersonal test every time I step into the batter’s box: Can I do better than the last time? And that’s why I love it.
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I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.
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What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?…The term was faith.
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A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
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He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he’s tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend’s hair. Ever.
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