The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller
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Time to live a little.
What a marvelous thing for me to witness: someone enjoying a cigarette more than I’ve enjoyed all of my personal successes from school until now. Striving, pushing and pulling, climbing, have only taken me to a greater height from which I must fall in order to recover the joyful humanity some find so easily in a good smoke.
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