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Quotes from Curioddity — Paul Jenkins

born 1965 England

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Life is not about how you use your eyes; it’s about having vision.

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But even a man who has paid his rent doesn’t have forever.

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Your eyes only see what your mind lets you believe!

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Wil tried a vacant stare, just to see if he could beat the old lady at her own game.

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We all know that life isn’t fair. But life should at least come with a printed copy in large type in case of misunderstandings and overbilling.

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“Wil,” said Barry with a weight of sadness that only a parent can know, “I tried as hard as I could.”

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He stopped in his tracks to consider what might be Actually Occurring, as opposed to Apparently Occurring.

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His museum took a stance against conventional thinking, and the slow death of intellect that comes with mediocrity.

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Ignoring the old man, Wil reasoned, was the first step to figuring him out.

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He’d carefully judged the measure of his opponent’s resolve, and knew that a man as greedy and weak willed as Marcus James would always be the one to crack first under duress.

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He began to think of better days, all of which lay in the opposite direction from the one he was facing.

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Wil had always been a hopeless romantic, with “hopeless” being the operative word.

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Wil opened his eyes to find Thursday glaring in at him through his window; apparently, the universe was already in a foul mood.

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The cat leaned into Wil’s leg and rubbed a little bit, just to let Wil know that he had officially been given permission to exist.

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There was evidence of neither angels nor ambulance workers, which Wil took to be a positive sign.

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Wil Morgan awoke from his regular anxiety dream, in which he had just finished second in a World’s Biggest Failure competition.

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“I think you’re missing the point.”
“I think I’m not alone in that.”

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Outside, the city streets were gray and sodden. Indeed, Wil often fancied this was the city where they had invented the color gray.

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Wil allowed his voice to trail off. The chances of a rational explanation at this point were in exact proportion to the chances of Lucy believing it.

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Wil knew that he had done something that might never be undone: his Dad might forgive the years of lies, but he would never forgive this one moment of absolute truth.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul Jenkins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.