"Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out. What was wrong was very simple. Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day."

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Source : Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books

Gary Lutz

#Lying Quotes #Simple Quotes #Night Quotes

“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”
“The loss of friends is a tax on age!”
“Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.”
“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”
“I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.”
“Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence.”
“I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.”
“You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.”

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