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People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

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Matthew Quick
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
Camden
New Jersey
People
Leonard
Peacock
Expect
Nice
Human
Humans

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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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most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.
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I am practicing being kind over being right.
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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.
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