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Judging is what them that listen does for them that tell, whether it’s wanted or not.
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I heard her say once that though many a man was worth a tumble, there wasn’t one in a hundred was worth living with.
Ha
She was the furnishing of a lot of my thoughts back then. I was a boy of fifteen after all.
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talking away like the words was going to spoil if we didn’t get them said.
anyone who talks about the right way to live, as if there was only just the one, is blind in one eye or maybe both and is not worth listening to.
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I had losed any chance of being with her, and it seemed to me then that there wasn’t any way of being happy without her. So I did what fools always have done since time was time, which is I pissed in my own milk and then complained about the taste of it.
Ha
Mirrors are third-party sites that host proprietary content, Koli. I know that doesn’t mean anything to you, but believe me, it makes the Sony Corporation have to sit down in a wicker chair and fan its face with the copyright act.
Haha
“Monono Aware is sort of a gimmick name. It’s a phrase in Japanese for a certain kind of feeling. Did you ever look at something beautiful, Koli, like a sunset or a flower, and think how sad it was that it would only be there for a little while? That it was going to vanish out of the world and never be seen again, and there was nothing you or anybody could do to make it stay?”
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“Then what you were feeling was monono aware. The sadness that’s deep down inside beautiful things. The pain and suckiness of everything having a shelf life. I-love-you-so-much-goodbye-for-ever.
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