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  1. Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I real…
  2. The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexualit…
  3. Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
  4. Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.
  5. To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
  6. I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, b…
  7. I acquiesced in this on the grounds that the most anyone can expect from a holiday is a change of agony.
  8. As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, 'they can't leave anything alone.'

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