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"Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music."
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"His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines."
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"And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend."
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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. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love."
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