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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.
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deep down...she's a good woman...you should be proud of her. When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle.
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Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.
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Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.
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I really do love my sister. Especially when she's nice.
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Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.
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So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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Welcome to the island of misfit toys.
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There are other people who have it a lot worse
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You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.
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It's strange the times people choose to be generous.
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It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.
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It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
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The thing is some girls think they can actually change guys
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Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.
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Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn’t do things because I didn’t want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn’t being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t really even know me?
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The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.
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in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them.
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I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people participate.
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The fights are always the same
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