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It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.

Stephen Chbosky

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three of us. I was in the middle. I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I just remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere
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He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
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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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The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.
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Enjoy it. Because it's happening.
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Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.
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I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you.
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