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What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

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Matthew Quick
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 23
Novelist
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Camden
New Jersey
Things
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Feels

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I am trying to be kind instead of right.
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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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You want to be a good person, don't you, Pat?' I nod. I cry. I do want to be a good person, I really do. 'I'm going to up your meds,' Dr. Patel tells me. 'You might feel a little sluggish, but it should help to curb your violent outbursts. You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
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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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She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn’t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.
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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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My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.
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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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...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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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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Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.
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The world will break your heart ten times till Sunday,that's guaranteed
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I opened up to you and you judge me
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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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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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The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday, that’s guaranteed. And I can’t begin to explain that- or the craziness inside myself and everybdy else,but guess what? Sunday is my fav day again
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I am practicing being kind over being right.
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If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.
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I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I would write him a letter right now and threaten to strangle him dead with my bare hands just for being so glum. No wonder he put a gun to his head, like it says in the introductory essay.
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I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.
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