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Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.

Matthew Quick

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Matthew Quick
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
Camden
New Jersey
People
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Depending
Others
Sympathetic
Hard
Trip
Children
Chemicals
Different
Rage
Mind
Harder
Life
Told
Raging
World
Understand
Wildly

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