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It's funny, or tragic, really, how an ordinary act like helping someone with their homework could be the inadvertent trigger for almost a decade of silent suffering. -- Jonathan Tropper
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It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle. -- Jonathan Tropper
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None of us makes eye contact. We have pretty much had it with each other. We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure. - Judd Foxman -- Jonathan Tropper
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It was one of those playful arguments that we would carry with us unresolved into old age. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. -- Jonathan Tropper
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And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway in your brain that you can never reclaim. -- Jonathan Tropper
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There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost -- Jonathan Tropper
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Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed - although he doesn't know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you're simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back. -- Jonathan Tropper
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What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it's for the last time? -- Jonathan Tropper
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If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations -- Jonathan Tropper
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I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks. -- Jonathan Tropper
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We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a tragic fact but worlds away from our reality. -- Jonathan Tropper
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And someday soon, I'll rest in peace. But till that day does come, I'll rest in pieces. -- Jonathan Tropper
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She's pretty in an unsophisticated way, like a Midwestern farm girl, and you can see the wide-open prairies behind her, the blue-skied meadows in her eyes. -- Jonathan Tropper
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What would you like to do today?" he says. She gives him a funny look. "What are my options?" "Sky's the limit." She considers it for a moment. "Brunch?" "I say the sky's the limit and all you can come up with is brunch?" "I'm just not sure we live under the same sky. -- Jonathan Tropper
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As always, the first instant he sees her, he can feel his heart shut down, the way you do in those first moment after impact, or, he supposes, when you're drowning. Love or panic. The two have always been fairly indistinguishable to him. -- Jonathan Tropper
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'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced. -- Jonathan Tropper
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In my defense, I was young and there was an open bar. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's heads above what I ever thought I could see in myself. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I've been treating my life as this pit stop, just kind of regrouping before I move on. But it's been seven years, and I never moved on. I haven't done anything. I just ... stopped. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people killing each other, you want to hear characters speak and be funny and witty. -- Jonathan Tropper
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If anything, love is just a starting point. Then life intrudes, along with the personal baggage you've spent years packing, and things get royally and irrevocably fucked up. You can get bitter or you can keep trying. Most people do some of each. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Young people with terminal illnesses develop a whimsical, slightly sarcastic sense of humor about it to put everyone else at ease and to serve as shining examples of grace in the face of colossally fucked-up events. -- Jonathan Tropper
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She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The old expression goes, a good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Healing is a deeply private process and, honestly, you're not welcome to be a part of it. But you will have given me a short furlough from the dark, sorry prison of my mind, and that gift, precious in its own right, is really the best you can hope to offer. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my mind at random like matches from a book, striking them one at a time and drowsily setting myself on fire. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Childhood feels so permanent, -- Jonathan Tropper
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In high school, if you can find a girl who will kiss you and maybe let you touch her breasts and a guy who likes the same movies as you, your world is pretty much complete. -- Jonathan Tropper
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He doesn't so much fall in love as dive-bomb it like a kamikaze pilot, fearless and at full throttle. He used to look at this propensity as a gift, then a curse, and now understands it to be just another way in which he is broken. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don't even get to mourn. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. -- Jonathan Tropper
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We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure. -- Jonathan Tropper
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A problem is something to solve," Phillip says. "If there's no solution, it's not a problem, so stop treating it like one. -- Jonathan Tropper
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And there's a special place in shiva hell reserved for men in sandals, their cracked, hardened toenails, dark with fungus, proudly on display. -- Jonathan Tropper
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And the violence of the coupling itself, primitive and elemental, reminding us that we're all just dumb animals clinging to our spot on the food chain, eating, sleeping, and fucking as much as possible before something bigger comes along and devours us. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Driving a Porsche is like fucking a model," he says, and he would know. "It will never feel as good as it looks. -- Jonathan Tropper
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All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has exploded in their midst, piercing every possible soft point of flesh-from earlobes and nostrils to eyebrows, lips, and tongues-with metal studs and rings. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything. -- Jonathan Tropper
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It's a sad moment when you come to understand how truly replaceable you are. -- Jonathan Tropper
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But that's why you pay for insurance, right? If you never file a claim, then they've beaten you. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child. -- Jonathan Tropper
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This is probably as good a time as any to mention that I was holding a large birthday cake. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The gravedigger looks like Santa Claus, and I don't believe for a minute he doesn't know it. With his long white beard and stout build, he has to know the effect of wearing a red and white anorak and how inappropriate the whole getup looks in the Mount Zion Cemetery. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You OK?" she says, raising her eyebrows. "You're teetering."
He nods and steadies himself against the wall. "Aren't we all," he says. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's more just about finding the visuals and finding these characters through dialogue. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living. -- Jonathan Tropper
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At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You have to question the originality of your life when it can be captured perfectly in the lyrics of a rock song. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her. -- Jonathan Tropper
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We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I may have overmothered you and screwed you up in ways large and small, but I think it's time you took some measure of responsibility for where you choose to put your own penis. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You get married to have an ally against your family, and now I'm heading into the trenches alone. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Dad didn't believe in God, but he was a lifelong member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can. So his actual death itself was less an event than a final sad detail. -- Jonathan Tropper
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We get married to have an ally against our family. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I'm not the same person I was. I'm fucked up." I give her a sideways glance. "I am," she says. "You haven't even scratched the surface."
"I find that most people worth knowing are fucked up in some way or another. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The last time I saw Wade, I attacked him with an office chair. The time before that, I jammed a lit cheesecake up his ass and almost burned his balls off. So it's understandable that his first reaction upon seeing me is to flinch and assume a defensive posture. -- Jonathan Tropper
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In real life, you don't get to choose what you forget. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Until you found your way out of the woods, it was reassuring to find other people lost in them with you. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Relationships don't come with a warranty and being in love is no guarantee of a happy ending. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Due to some mental hiccup I can't explain, when I think of God, I picture Hugh Hefner: a thin, angular man with a prominent chin in a maroon smoking jacket. -- Jonathan Tropper
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When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of who the character is. Once somebody gets cast, I have to adjust a little bit to who they are. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Over the course of a fifty-year marriage, one bad year isn't very significant. Your marriage might still be there to be saved. But you'll never know if you keep indulging your hate and anger like the world owes you reparations. -- Jonathan Tropper
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But that's one of the questions I've learned not to ask, because I'll get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents, to remind you that you're not yet a complete person. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they're never really gone. -- Jonathan Tropper
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And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughtfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Rest stops have always made him strangely happy. He couldn't say why. Just the idea of everyone on their way somewhere, united by wanderlust, no one belonging more than anyone else. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Arms stop me from crumpling like a rag doll. Sometimes you don't need to talk things out. Sometimes, with the right person, things just need some time to percolate on their own, without the messy lunge and parry of discussion to hinder them. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I feel a dark wave of regret for the kind of person I turned out to be. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I may not beleive in God, but I believe in guilt and no one wants to dick around with eternity, even if it isn't there. -- Jonathan Tropper
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If there's a perk to having such a fucked up father, it's that he's in no position to judge. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you're not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don't know anything about them at all. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The life you build feels like the entire world, and when it's suddenly gone, the world doesn't make sense for a while. Or, in his case, ever again. -- Jonathan Tropper
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And beneath the chaos of the moment, Denise becomes aware of a painful truth about herself: she is never as deeply in love with a man as she is in the moment he leaves her. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The cobbler's children go barefoot, -- Jonathan Tropper
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It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. -- Jonathan Tropper
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It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I'd been forced into a movie, and there was nothing to do but follow the script. -- Jonathan Tropper
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And nothing can be resolved until each of you has come to appreciate the other's position -- Jonathan Tropper
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I want to explain everything to him, show him that it's really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is. -- Jonathan Tropper
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People brush past us on the street in endless waves, leaving somewhere, headed somewhere else, laughing, smoking, speaking into cell phones, completely oblivious to the holocaust of an entire world casually imploding in their midst. -- Jonathan Tropper
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At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started. -- Jonathan Tropper
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If you're eating an ice cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Moments later, there was a loud, protracted crashing sound. "Motherfucker!" "What was that?" "I just backed through the garage door." "Jesus. You okay?" "I'm fine," she said. "The whole damn door came down. I'll just drive over it." "Drive carefully. -- Jonathan Tropper
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He was right here and nowhere to be found. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I want someone who will love me and touch me and understand me and let me take care of them, but beyond that, I don't know. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Sometimes it's heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they've become. Maybe that's why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course. -- Jonathan Tropper
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It's hard to imagine your heart simply stopping, but at the same time, it's hard to believe that it didn't give up years ago. -- Jonathan Tropper
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That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant. -- Jonathan Tropper
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As soon as he saw her face, he knew what it would look like when she ended it. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The really good liars, the true grandmasters of bullshit, are so damn convincing because they actually believe their own lies. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Back (thank god for office accessorizing, the last playground of the reluctant adult). -- Jonathan Tropper
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If I were an athlete I'd be past my prime. If I were a dog I'd be dead. Thirty ... shit. -- Jonathan Tropper
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But the muse won't always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she'd rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie. -- Jonathan Tropper
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If so, how do we feel about it?" "We are numb. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The self-help books and websites haven't come up with a proper title for spouses living in the purgatory that exists before the courts have officially ratified your personal tragedy. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Even betting against myself, I could always find a way to lose. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently cleared out all the areas where things like reason and common sense are stored. -- Jonathan Tropper
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He has always had a dangerous tendency to embrace blind optimism in the face of hard facts. -- Jonathan Tropper
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She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky. -- Jonathan Tropper
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It's a point of pride whenever you can point to the ways in which you're avoiding your progenitor's defective character. I'm not like him becomes your mantra, -- Jonathan Tropper
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Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better. -- Jonathan Tropper
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It's rare for someone to say something to you, just a few words, really, and actually make you see yourself from a completely different vantage point. -- Jonathan Tropper
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And as the room starts to fill with the first somber-faced neighbors coming to pay their respects, it becomes clear to me that the reason for filling the shiva house with visitors is most likely to prevent the mourners from tearing each other limb from limb. -- Jonathan Tropper
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We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms. -- Jonathan Tropper
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If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You're just the sperm donor, Norm," he says, heading for the door. "That's all you were ever good for. Fucking sperm. -- Jonathan Tropper
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As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You learn not to think about what might have been, and to just appreciate what you have. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Nobody wants to rock their own life. But, on the other hand, when your life does get rocked, it affords you a certain level of emotional honesty. It liberates you to be who you really are. -- Jonathan Tropper
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And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being
angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning
yourself without thinking about it. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I may not be old but I'm too old to have this much nothing -- Jonathan Tropper
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Above us, the moon hangs like a fat blister on the feel of the sky, ready to burst in a spray of viscous white pus
chap 22. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Sometimes, commitment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature," he says. "Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social interaction. A lesser person, " he offers with a wry grin, "Might well become one bitter fuck. -- Jonathan Tropper
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It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem. -- Jonathan Tropper
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[T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky. -- Jonathan Tropper
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We don't share our thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them, Hollywood adaptations of those thoughts dumbed down for the PG-13 crowd. -- Jonathan Tropper
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It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You want to move on, but to do that you have to let her go, and you don't want to let her go, so you don't move on. -- Jonathan Tropper
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In my family, we don't so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already? -- Jonathan Tropper
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Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I'll never fully understand the agenda of angry breast-feeders. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Bllod will separate, if need be, but its call is primordial, and it won't be refused. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Being an official divorce brought late-night channel-surfing up to a staggering new level of depressing. I just wanted to belong to someone already. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I could report the rest of the conversation, but it's just more of the same, two people whose love became toxic, lobbing regret grenades at each other. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The thing about people who work in finance is that they consider their job infinitely more important than anything or anyone, and so it's perfectly legitimate to tell everyone else to fuck off because they have a conference call with Dubai. -- Jonathan Tropper
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People love to do that, to point to some single phenomenon, assign it all the blame, and wipe the slate clean, like when overeaters sue McDonald's for making them fat pigs. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You could fill an airlift to Africa with all the food generated by one dead Jew. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn't hear it in time. -- Jonathan Tropper
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And if you want to know where all the good guys are, we're standing right in front of you, lacking the balls to actually make ourselves heard. -- Jonathan Tropper
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But moving from conversation to violence is just as hard as moving from flirting to kissing. There's that leap you have to take, to shed your inhibitions and expose your naked impulses. -- Jonathan Tropper
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One day you just wake up and discover that you got old while you were sleeping. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is? -- Jonathan Tropper
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At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else. -- Jonathan Tropper
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It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Everybody dies alone. That's a fact. Some more alone than others. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I haven't seen her in a while, haven't returned her calls or stopped thinking about her. -- Jonathan Tropper
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He'd continue to cry passionately, long after he'd forgotten why he was crying to begin with. -- Jonathan Tropper
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When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card.
P.15 -- Jonathan Tropper
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She'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let her pierce my walls in a Trojan horse of sympathy. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You never have to change a book for budget. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are movies where voiceover works really well because it does something more than exposition; it actually becomes a tonal element of the movie. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Jen was in turmoil; she was grappling with self-esteem issues and a failed attempt at anorexia. I was in the right place at the right time, and the gods were finally ready to cut me some slack. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Don't you ever worry about the future?" I asked. Jack shrugged. "This is the future," he said. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Anger you have locked up in you, and that's healthy. I just think you could be a little more judicious -- Jonathan Tropper
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In The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper, Wayne is talking to Joe about "days that matter". Wayne says, "It's simple really. We were doing what we wanted to do, instead of what we expected ourselves to do. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don't share thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Oh, people will come, Ray," Phillip intones, doing his best James Earl Jones. "People will most definitely come. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Whatever the opposite of a plan is, that's what I've got. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Phillip, who is congenitally incapable of moderation, -- Jonathan Tropper
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We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Then I'm telling it wrong." "Bad?" "Yes. Divorce shouldn't be friendly. It just makes everything that much more confusing, -- Jonathan Tropper
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The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I'm living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it. -- Jonathan Tropper
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To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up. -- Jonathan Tropper
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When did being right become worthless, and being at fault irrelevant? -- Jonathan Tropper
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if there is an afterlife, then nothing here mattered, and if there isn't an afterlife, nothing here mattered. -- Jonathan Tropper
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On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order. -- Jonathan Tropper
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A lot can go wrong in twelve hours. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Time doesn't heal as much as it buries things in the undergrowth of your brain, where they lie in wait to ambush you when you least expect it. -- Jonathan Tropper
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There is nothing sadder than sitting in a car and having absolutely nowhere to go. -- Jonathan Tropper
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You still go to therapy?"
"Nah. I gave up years ago."
"Mental health isn't for everyone. -- Jonathan Tropper
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It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity. -- Jonathan Tropper
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But the truth is always a lot fuzzier, hiding in soft focus on the periphery. -- Jonathan Tropper
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The reason wisdom is meant to be imparted is because you acquire it only after it's too late to apply to yourself. -- Jonathan Tropper
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It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch. -- Jonathan Tropper
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If we sound like a couple of callous assholes, it's because that's how we were raised. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I don't have a career, I don't have a family, and I don't know what to do next. I've been so determined to escape anything permanent, and now I just feel like I'm nowhere. And what if that's the permanent thing by default? -- Jonathan Tropper
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You get married to get an ally against your family. -- Jonathan Tropper
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There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Why'd you come to me?"
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"I care less about letting you down. -- Jonathan Tropper
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I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Good sex requires many different things, but in most cases, efficiency isn't one of them. - Judd Foxman -- Jonathan Tropper
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The future just isn't what it used to be -- Jonathan Tropper
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I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do. -- Jonathan Tropper
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At our age, loneliness can seem so permanent. -- Jonathan Tropper
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Maybe yelling back is a kind of marital diplomacy -- Jonathan Tropper