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Daniella: I'm young, spoiled, impetuous and American. Humor me.
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Clay Hammond: He loved her. He loved New York. But at night, when the city was finally quiet, he wrote.
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The Old Man: We all make our choices in life, the hard thing to do is live with them.
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Mr. Jansen: Another part of being a man, no matter how painful it might be, is accepting your own limitations.
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Rory Jansen: I'm not who I thought I was, okay? I'm not. And I'm terrified that I never will be.
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The Old Man: He found out sometime later that what she'd actually said was: "Pay your check and get the hell out of here". But who is he to question fate?
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Clay Hammond: At some point, you have to choose between life and fiction. The two are very close, but they never actually touch.
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The Old Man: He should've been somebody everyone knows.
Rory Jansen: Yeah... but what happened?
The Old Man: Life.
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The Old Man: You choose the words, you choose the pain.
The Words Quotes
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Bailey 2022-04-24 07:01:16
Three layers of nested stories, but the ending is not passed to the audience, it is left to you to experience
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Clifford 2021-12-25 08:01:38
A story is still a story, and the pursuit of a story with a sense of rebirth is the rule of Hollywood. Although this is a routine that follows the traditional paradigm of European and American classical literature, life, choice, success or failure, opportunity, and lust are how entangled and often new themes are. The reason I look at McGee is not how clever the old man is, but that the system and traditions are constantly promoting the film industry. And we don’t even tell a good story, so I still respect Mo Yan
