A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.
BARRY LYGALook, my dad has a saying – we’ll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.
More Barry Lyga Quotes
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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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See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event – it’s a process.
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You don’t swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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I don’t know and I don’t care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it. I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.
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You won’t even know you’ve crossed the line until it’s way back in your rearview mirror.
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Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
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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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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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[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
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It’s not an easy choice, but that’s OK. Easy doesn’t equal good. Difficulty doesn’t equal bad. It’s just life, is all.
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This is why I forgive, but I don’t forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn’t mean anything anymore.
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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
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Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.
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