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1) Avoiding pain, and the consequences that stem from our willingness to take extreme measures to avoid pain, are two of the unassailable problems of our time.

2) I’ve paid thousands of dollars to lose my sense of smell and bask in shortened breath. How did I agree to that? Not “why?,” a question that invites an inevitable lie, but how?
I suppose when you can’t sleep you scrawl. I know I can’t smell b/c I smoke. I’m going to go smoke b/c I can’t sleep.

3) Brad Childress is telling his squad, Let’s not go peeing down both legs. His mustache and sideline demeanor bespeak a previous life spent as a guy who sells insurance exclusively to other members of his country club.


4) “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”