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Matthew Quick

(1973) Writer United States

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Matthew Quick is a writer from the United States, best known for The Good Luck Of Right Now.

Quick Facts About Matthew Quick

Born: October 23, 1973
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: The Good Luck Of Right Now

About Matthew Quick

Matthew Quick is an American writer of adult and young adult fiction. His 2008 debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted as a 2012 movie of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Matthew Quick

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at…

About

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Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it…

Books

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Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you…

Audience

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“Like maybe he really, truly believes I'm worth listening to, worth saving.”

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...I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.

Cinema

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You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life.

Family

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When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

Abandoned

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I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.

Happiness

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“the only way you could meet my crazy was by doing something crazy for yourself”

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When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from…

Accent

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“Empiezo a comprender que tenemos una clase de amistad en la que no se necesitan muchas palabras.”

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When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.

Abandoned

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“Sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship, Leonard. It really does.” “Here’s looking at you, kid.”

Friendship

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“The whole time I pretend I have mental telepathy. And with my mind only, I’ll say — or think? — to the…

Adulthood

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Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a…

Different

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Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?

Life

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Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck...

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When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the…

About

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“...it's not fair because I have been trying so hard and how long can this fucking movie last...”

Trying so hard

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“a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.”

Psychology

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I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were…

Alive

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Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.

Christmas

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The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.

Art

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“Sometimes I actually hope that he did once feel empty and hopeless and helpless enough to slash his wrists to the bone,…

Hope

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I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.

Beer

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Matthew Quick by topic

Life (31) Time (23) Movie (14) Books (14) People (13) Thinking (12) Psychology (12) Silver Lining (11) High school (10) Happy ending (10) Feels (10) Parenting (9) Leonard peacock (9) Happy endings (9) Right now (8)