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"What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw that cat right in Connor's puked-up face. Pale turd."
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"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

"Anger travels faster, conscience is slower! Angers goes ahead to destroy long before conscience lately arrives to regret! Don't try to keep anger just for a while... It destroys before negotiations!"

"When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love."

"A little fire of anger can burn everything that you have built over your lifetime."

"Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people's fires. Let us stop it by being kind and forgiving like water."
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"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."

"Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief."

"On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence."

"Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly, eventually you land on all the properties."

"We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe."

"In the purifying sweep of atheism human beings lost all special value. The numb misery of the horse was matched by that of the farmer; the once-green ferny lives crushed into coal's fossiliferous strata were no more anonymous and obliterated than Clarence's own life would soon be, in a wink of earth's tremendous time. Without Biblical blessing the physical universe became sherry horrible and disgusting. All fleshy acts became vile, rather than merely some. The reality of men slaying lambs and cattle, fish and fowl to sustain their own bodies took on an aspect of grisly comedy--the blood-soaked selfishness of a cosmic mayhem."

"Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly."
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