Matthew Quick

Writer

1973-10-23

Quotes by Matthew Quick

• you don't put demands on people and you never say anything negative--ever. So many people suck the life out of everyone they're around, but you don't do that. You give people strength just by being you.

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• Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same.

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• Pat, it's not sexual – it's modern dance.

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• There are a lot of lonely kids in this world, but the problem is that they don't know about each other. If the lonely kids could just team up, a lot of good things would happen, but the world is incredibly afraid of lonely people teaming up, and so it does its best to keep them apart.

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• Why would god allow the Holocaust to happen? If god made everything, why did he invent sin to trick us and then hold our sins against us? Why are there so many religions in the world if god created the world and wants us to be Christian? Why does god allow people to fight wars over him? What if you were born in a different culture and never even heard of Jesus Christ— would god send you to hell for not being Christian? And if so, do you believe that's fair? Why are men always the leaders in your church? Aren't women capable of leading too? Isn't such a patriarchal system sexist in this day and age? Why do so many babies die? Why are there so many poor people in the world? Did Jesus visit any other planets in distant unknown universes?

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• Sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship, Leonard. It really does.— —Here's looking at you, kid.

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• You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

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• Air goes in and outof my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heartbrain - and so I am

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• I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

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• Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

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• And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?

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• Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

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• I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

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• Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

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• You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

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• Pat, it's not sexual – it's modern dance.

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• And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?

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• Air goes in and outof my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heartbrain - and so I am

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• Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

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• Sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship, Leonard. It really does.— —Here's looking at you, kid.

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