Matt Ruff
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This is a bad story.”
Sometimes people don’t understand
Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. 
Are you still mad at me?"
The Blue Bird
Are you saying,” he asked slowly, “that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted y... 
He stood and looked at me for a moment, taking in my outfit. "You look hot."
Why are you leaving me?
You are a slow learner, Winston."
I asked,”Are you going to pick up next time I call you?”
don’t think that true love means your only love.
1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or tast... 
I thought you told me you loved stories Have you ever heard a story of an adventurer with a sane pla... 
I love you just the way you are
Why did you ask me to live with you? Werewolves hate vampires.”
I Like For You To Be Still
Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets h... 
No, I know,” Levi said. “But it’s not you. You don’t push through every moment. You pay atte... 
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. 
But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
To all those who care, 
When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 
Tell me a truth, Senna.“
Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m ... 
It’s 11 am and I’m sitting in a restaurant 
Look, this is all very, very weird. Why are you focusing on rumours and urban legends? You haven’t... 
I've wandered through the real world, and written myself through the darkness of the streets inside ... 
Don’t leave me,” he whispers.
Atticus, he was real nice."
Well, now
There are people.
What do you want me to do? Arrest them all?” 
Roses are red,
The Genius Of The Crowd
Maggie." He chuckled. "I can't really be mad at you in case you haven't noticed."
Why d’you make me suffer?"
Some like them hot,some like them cold.
Do you think I'm pretty?”
O smile, going where? O upturned look:
No one deserves you like I do.” …
I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village:
Red Sox looked around Jane at the patient, “Your mind reading coming back?”
i don’t know what living a balanced life feels like
Hey You
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another mess... 
Don’t try to prove that anybody is foolish because fools don’t like it. Don’t try to prove to ... 
But ... but what if I hit you?”
He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?" 
It offends me when you doubt my love.
Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?"
Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.”
eat, baby.
The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
Oh life is like potatoes and oignons; 
As he passed me, he leaned to Curran and handed him a paper fan folded from some sort of flyer.
With Cats, some say, one rule is true:
So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .”
Your children are not your children.
Yo, beautiful. Come pop this collar off me.”
Words
Give the course that these hearings have followed ... and given the special relationship between the... 
I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about on... 
Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out ... 
The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was ... 
Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems. 
Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those ki... 
In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't... 
If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I r... 
We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to los... 
Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's ni... 
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East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states ... 
Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and b... 
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Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. 
I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community.... 
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Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switc... 
It-was a tiny mollusc that caused Walter, grandfather of the greatest biologist of the twentieth cen... 
That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere... 
The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message ... 
I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it...