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Cliff: "Life is hard, Pat, and children have to be told how hard life can be."
Pat: "Why?"
Cliff: "So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one's mind."
- The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick

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