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We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.
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young-adult
dreams
love
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You ever watch a football game and get totally into it? Why? It's not a real battle. It's just a game somebody made up. So how can you take it seriously? Or, you ever see a movie that made your heart about jump out of your chest? Or one that made you cry? Why? It wasn't real. You ever look at a photo of food that made your mouth water? Why? You can't eat the picture. . . . . . Same thing with water towers and God. I don't have to be a belie..
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Pete Hautman |
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We were defined by what we did. What we had to do. I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.
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Pete Hautman |
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The first step to success it's to imagine it
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Pete Hautman |
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If you can imagine it, you're halfway there
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Pete Hautman |
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TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and soap operas. Besides, a TV-watching child was considered available for chores: take out the trash, clean your room, pick up that mess, fold those towels, mow the lawn... the list was endless. We all became adept at chore-avoidance. Staying out of sight was a reliable strategy. Drawing or painting was another: to my mother, ma..
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1960s-nostalgia
chores
growing-up
summer
nostalgia
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Pete Hautman |
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He's kinda shy. Maybe I should ask him out." "I think it's more traditional for you to trick him into asking you out. That way he feels more manly."
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Pete Hautman |
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He's a guy. He has built in testosterone issues.
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Pete Hautman |
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Guys have four personalities: the one they use with their parents, the one they use around other adults, the one they use for talking to girls, and the one they use for hanging with their friends. Leakage between the various personality types can cause serious problems.
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Pete Hautman |
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Dan is my ordinary friend. Everybody should have at least one ordinary friend and Dan is as ordinary as they come. He is so ordinary that most people have to meet him six or seven times before they remember his name.
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For example, if she joined the book club -- there was always a book club -- and hung out with them, her choice of guys would be limited to the dark and moody Chuck Palahniuk/Kurt Vonnegut/Life-Sucks-and-Then-You-Die brooders.
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Dear Miz Fitz, My boyfriend is superhot so a lot of girls think up reasons to talk to him. It drives me... ...Out of my Mind Miz Fitz sez: Maybe he is too hot for you. Send me his photo, name, and phone number. I will check him out and get back to you.
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Pete Hautman |
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Miz Fitz, If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven. -Hellbound, a Lass Miz Fitz sez: You should wish for something realistic, like world peace."
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Pete Hautman |
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Destiny? My destiny is what I make of it!
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Pete Hautman |
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The dead live in our memories.
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live
memories
reality
life
ghosts
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Pete Hautman |
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I didn't know what to say, but one thing was for sure: The Bank of Ted was closed.
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Pete Hautman |
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Q: Why don't boys talk? A: Boys do talk! You watch a group of them from a distance you will see that their lips are moving. They are probably making hand gestures as well. But what are they talking about? I do my hare of talking with my guy friends, but I have no idea what we talk bout. guys have absolutely no short-term memory for conversations. This is why a girl can have a long, heart-to-heart talk with her sweetie, and the next day she ..
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Pete Hautman |
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we live in different worlds, different realities
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world
reality
different-worlds
parallel-universes
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Pete Hautman |
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I suppose if we forgot stuff we'll never know we forgot it, because we won't remember
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memories
remember
remembering
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Pete Hautman |
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People in groups are like sheep. Like, when your very best friend is surrounded by other people, she cares more about what everybody else thinks that she cares about you. The more people there are, the more they act like animals. "That doesn't make sense." "Sure it does. Have you ever heard of two guys getting in a fistfight when there's nobody around to watch? It never happens. It takes a crowd to bring out the beast. You can't trust anybo..
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I know that the World is a terrible place, filled with wild animals and evil men and wicked woman.
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Pete Hautman |
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You already have the capacity to travel through time. Simply wait for the future to arrive.
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Pete Hautman |
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Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.
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gambling
hunting
series
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Pete Hautman |
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How do you know it's true if you don't believe in it?" "I...huh?" "How can you understand something you don't believe in?" "Shin, that doesn't make any sense. That's like saying you can't understand leprechauns unless you believe in them." "Do you understand leprechauns?"
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Pete Hautman |
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We sit on the floor in front of his oscillating fan and talk sci-fi, and I am thinking how strange this is that I should be sitting peacefully with Henry Stagg in his bedroom when only a week or so ago he punched me in the face for no reason whatsoever.
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Pete Hautman |
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Is that my ears ringing, or am I screaming? I am burning and I am blind and I can't find the stairs and I do not know how to get out of Madham.
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Pete Hautman |
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He had to keep moving. It didn't matter in which direction.
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Pete Hautman |
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I don't even know what the word strange means anymore... that's really strange.
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Pete Hautman |
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Emily did not want to believe in ghosts. But she kept seeing them. She had been seeing them ever since she could remember.
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Pete Hautman |
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What have we done?' he asked, but there was no one to answer him.
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Pete Hautman |
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is reality simply a dream we share?
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people
reality
family
paul-hautman
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Pete Hautman |
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Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I'll tell you. They're secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait." "Wait for what?" "To be forgotten. My father has been gone for sixty years, but" -- he tapped the side of his head -- "he's still here. He never left."
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reality
forgotten-memories
ghosts-of-the-past
ghosts
secrets
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Pete Hautman |
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I once read a short story about some cannibals who didn't turn their victims into steaks and chops and roasts; they made them all into sausages. Because when you're eating a sausage you don't think so much about what you're eating. It's the same with communion wafers. .......... My point is, the miracle of the Holy Communion is when the priest turns these little white disks into the flesh of Jesus Christ. They call it transubstantiation. So..
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religion
god
humor
transubstantiation
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Pete Hautman |
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Anyway, the reason I hate communion isn't the meat-eating component. I get hungry enough, I'll eat anything. The reason I hate it is because everybody in the church except me, Jason Bock, stands up and gets in line for their little snack. I sit there alone in the pew while everybody stares at me as they file past. I sit there and burn under hellfire and damnation stare my father gives me. And I feel awful. But what choice do I have? Accordi..
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humor
godless
communion
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Pete Hautman |
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figuring out was is real isn't always possible, because our own brains are telling us stories
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reality
stories
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Pete Hautman |