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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.

Stephen Chbosky

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Ahead
Everyone
Lives
Things
Love
Think
Thinking
Perks
Counts

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