When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.
I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the pl… - Darin Strauss
I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the pl…
- Darin Strauss
Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasa… - Darin Strauss
Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasa…
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS gu… - Darin Strauss
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS gu…
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble. - Darin Strauss
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted wa… - Darin Strauss
By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted wa…
Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them. - Darin Strauss
Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy. - Darin Strauss
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.
The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses. - Darin Strauss
The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows… - Darin Strauss
Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows…
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