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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
Reality
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Feels
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Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.
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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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You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life.
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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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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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Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same.
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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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The world will break your heart ten times till Sunday,that's guaranteed
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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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People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.
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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'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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You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
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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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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 am trying to be kind instead of right.
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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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My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.
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You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts I learned the value of this at a very young age.
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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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