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"People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word."
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"In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously."

"Don't worry about getting credit, do the work anyway."

"The world will never know you because you did not work hard enough."

"The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer."

"I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything."

"A man's rivals tell you how great he is."

"She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was."

"She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere."

"A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show."

"Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil."
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"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."

"Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior."

"I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.And then Dante came along."

"Did you hear me, Zach? I care about you. 'Okay, I said. 'It's okay with me that you care about me. But can we please not talk about it? Would that be okay with you? 'Yeah, that would be okay, he said."

"I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was."

"Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely."

"For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad."
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