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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

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That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the...more

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If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine

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Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around...more

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The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show an...more

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But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could nev...more

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I lay down and started to feel a little depressed about prom. I refused to feel any kind of sadness over the fact that I wasn't going to prom, but I h...more

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You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all

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But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. ...more

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Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

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Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up rem...more

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People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and ...more