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I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.
-Roddy Doyle
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I Wouldn't Go Out Of My Way

Roddy Doyle
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.
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I'm a vegetarian. you're a what? i don't eat meat. how can you not eat meat? i just don't. he says he does not eat meat. what? no meat? no meat. steak? no... chickens! no... and what about the sausage? no, no sausage, no meat! he says he does not eat any meat. not even sausage? i know! what is wrong with him? what is wrong with you? nothing, i just don't eat meat!
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It is a great thing to be at your age... you are at a very specific time of age ... an age where you can follow all your dreams. but also at an age when you can change-you can change your dreams, you can change paths. when you start something when you're young, you should not decide 'this is it, this is my way and i will go all the way.' you have the age where you can change. you get experience, and maybe dislike it and go another way. your age is still an age of exploration.
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