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Leonard 2022-01-15 08:01:45
Walk in the woods
Walking in the forest. If you are old and encounter various diseases every day, the funerals of three or five friends make it feel that the only meaning of living is to wait for death. Would you challenge yourself again? In the play, a writer who is a winner in life, a prodigal son in a game of...
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Dion 2022-01-15 08:01:45
Isn't it our life if we are not ready...
What is unprepared...isn't it our life...and if we are ready, we will get old...how much we have to experience in our life is enough, from young to old, it is enough. There are always young people walking the way we have walked, and then getting old too. There are always young people who are like...
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Stephen Katz: In your absence, my romantic life has taken a turn for the better. Remember the laundromat? Her name is Beulah.
Bill Bryson: Seriously?
Stephen Katz: Yeah, seriously. And she's got a beautiful body. Buried under two hundred pounds of fat. But then, you know I kinda like a little meat on the bone.
Bill Bryson: Sure, as long as you don't have to remove a wall to get her out of the house.
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Stephen Katz: [about his whiskey bottle] You know, Bryson, I wasn't actually hiding this. I wasn't lying about being dry either. The thing is, Bryson, I love to drink. Everything about it. I love the taste. And that buzz you get after you've had a couple. I love the smell of the tavern, right down to the urinal cakes. Hmm. But instead of going into the taverns like everybody else, I go home to my little apartment, and heat my TV dinner, and feel all virtuous like I'm supposed to.
[sighs]
Stephen Katz: But you know, night after night it's hard to persuade yourself that you're living a rich and thrilling existence. I mean, if they had a fun-o-meter the needle wouldn't exactly be jumping into the orgasmic zone. You know what I'm saying?
[sighs]
Stephen Katz: I mean, there's just this hole in my life where drinking used to be.
[sighs heavily]
Stephen Katz: I know I can't drink. I mean, one drink will lead to 10. And the next thing, I'll find myself underneath a bridge somewhere.
Stephen Katz: That's why I carry this. To remind myself that I can. Or maybe I carry it in case I can't.
