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There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss every relationship ends in one way or another.
Charlie Kaufman
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Charlie Kaufman
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: November 1
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Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.
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I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
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So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
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