「You can forgive a person a lot who really enjoys you.」
「When you're tiny you have to be tough. This world isn't kind to little things.」
「I'll tell you what punishment is for me.
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What?
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It's hoping there's someone for you. And after years of no one you find him and you can't have him. We really connected, didn't we?
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Of course, we did.
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You weren't being nice to me just for the book, were you?
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No! I think about you all the time.
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Dick too?
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Only for the book.
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You're the only person I ever feel real around.
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Me too. I don't have to act like a little wind-up toy with you. Perry. I don't want you to die.」
「There were three deaths on the gallows that night.」
「It made him, and it ruined him.」
「I read an interview with Frank Sinatra in which he said about Judy Garland: "Every time she sings, she dies a little." That's how much she gave. It's true for writers, too, who hope to create something lasting. They die a little getting it right. And then the book comes out, and there's a dinner. Maybe they give you a prize. And then comes the inevitable and very American question: What's next? But the next thing can be... so hard because now you know what it demands.」
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