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“You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.”
― The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
― The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
“When life reaches out with a moment like this, it's a sin if you don't reach back.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases.”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
“When I read the actual story-how Gatsby loves Daisy so much but can't ever be with her no matter how hard he tries-I feel like ripping the book in half and calling up Fitzgerald and telling him his book is all wrong, even though I know Fitzgerald is probably deceased. Especially when Gatsby is shot dead in his swimming pool the first time he goes for a swim all summer, Daisy doesn't even go to his funeral, Nick and Jordan part ways, and Daisy ends up sticking with racist Tom, whose need for sex basically murders an innocent woman, you can tell Fitzgerald never took the time to look up at clouds during sunset, because there's no silver lining at the end of that book, let me tell you.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
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