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"The fact of the matter was that he was simply a very far-gone desert rat. I felt naive and middle-class for having hoped--even briefly--that I could bond with the unbondable, for thinking that all it takes to make crazy people uncrazy is a little bit of hearty attention and good sense....And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."

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Douglas Coupland

LIFE AFTER GOD

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"I am a sly cat

I am a summer wind

I am birds in flight

I am the sun

I am the sea

I am me"

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Dean Koontz

ONE DOOR AWAY FROM HEAVEN