Matthew Quick Quotes
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I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.
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I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.
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You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
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Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.
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There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.
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You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!
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It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.
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I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.
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That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.
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I...have a woman in my arms who has suffered greatly and desperately needs to believe once again that she is beautiful.
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I opened up to you and you judge me
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Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?
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Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.
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He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.
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Look, sometimes it’s OK with girls like this, they wanna have fun, and sometimes it’s not because they've got a broken wing and they’re hurt and they’re an easy target. In this case, this particular case, I think that wing is being fixed, my friend, and you gotta make sure that it’s mended and you’re getting in the way of that right now, okay, because she’s sensitive and she’s smart, she’s artistic. This is a great girl, you gotta be respectful to that. Come on, let me walk you to your car, you’re a better guy than this.
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Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.
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I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.
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So I’m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before they find their happy ending.
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I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.
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It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. So I need to run, and as my lungs burn and my back rebels with that stabbing knife feeling and my legs muscles harden and the half inch of loose skin around my waist jiggles, I feel as though my penance for the day is being done and that maybe God will be pleased enough to lend me some help, which I think is why He has been showing me interesting clouds for the past week.
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Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
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Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television. I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. Why not just tell high school students that their struggle to improve themselves is all for nothing?
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...but Cliff keeps pushing for the truth like therapists do, because they all have some sort of psychic ability that allows them to see through your lies, and therefore they know you will eventually tire of the talking game and will offer up the truth.
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After I returned to New Jersey, I thought I was safe, because I did not think Kenny G could leave the bad place, which I realize is silly now - because Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with.
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People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.
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...I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.
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I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.
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I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.
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I think it's strange to live in a house with someone you cannot talk to-especially when that someone is your father-and the thought makes me a little sad.
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When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.
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