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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
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Pittsburg
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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 too bad you're not gay. Then again, if you were gay, I would never date you. You're a mess. You know, Patrick? If I were gay, I'd want to date you. Of course.
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I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.
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But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt.
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I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.
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To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.
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There are other people who have it a lot worse
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Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
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Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.
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The fights are always the same
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I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.
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As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.
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I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.
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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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I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.
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He's a wallflower. And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
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Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.
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I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.
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So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.
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Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.
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