My Most Excellent Year Quotes

• Why do guys insist on wearing those odious jeans with their rear ends hanging down around their ankles? Do they really think it's hot?

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  Thinking   Jeans   Guy  

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.59, Penguin

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• A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.

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  Mean   Kissing   First Kiss  

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.268, Penguin

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• . . . it's not just the people we love, but the people we let love us back who show us how high we can really soar.

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  People   Soar   Shows  

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.261, Penguin

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• Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.

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  Fall   Trying   Ale  

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• Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

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  Government   Talking   Computer  

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.130, Penguin

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• Even though I didn't notice it while it was happening, I got reminded in ninth grade of a few things I guess I should have known all along. 1. A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes. 2. Always remember what it was like to be six. 3. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins. And if you're reall lucky, maybe even a purple balloon.

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  Giving Up   Believe   Don't Give Up  

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• Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.

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  Life   Giving Up   Believe  

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.268, Penguin

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• T.C.: Um, actually you just said "I live in a parking lot." You didn't mean to do that. Lori: You've never seen traffic on Concord Street at eight o'clock in the morning.

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  Morning   Mean   Eight  

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.157, Penguin

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• Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.

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  Gay   Night   Doe  

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• Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.

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  Ice   Needs   Eleven  

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.83, Penguin

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• Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.

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  Mean   May   Attraction  

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.134, Penguin

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• Papa, I'm ashamed that you think women are so simple. We can make decisions for ourselves too, you know. I'm not a child or a baby anymore, so I'm allowed to speak my mind. And if you don't wish to hear it, just tell me so and I'll go into another room-but I'll speak it anyway. I want this for myself as much as I've never wanted the diplomatic corps and I'm going to get it-even if I have to do it alone. Excuse me.

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  Baby   Children   Simple  

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