Steve Kluger Quotes

• 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.

  Steve Kluger

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

  Steve Kluger

  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 doesn't matter what people thinks of you as long as you know that your heart and head are in the right place.

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  Heart, Thinking, Long

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• The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and saying 'The good news is I got him down to 10. The bad news is adultery is still in.

  Steve Kluger

  Mountain, News, Adultery

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• Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.

  Steve Kluger

  Men, Romance, Language

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

  Steve Kluger

  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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• This week my son thinks he's the Supremes.All of them. So we can scratch "straight"off the list. At least I hope we can. As a gay kid he'll be a natural leader. Put him in a macho bullshit environment and he's going to have a hard time. I don't want that to happen. (Let's also not forget Wei's immortal words to him nine minutes after he was born, when she first stared into those big brown eyes: "Oh, honey. Promose me you'll grow up to like boys. Because I don't want any other woman in your life except me.")

  Steve Kluger

  Growing Up, Eye, Kids

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.44, 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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• My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.

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  Witty, Blow, Jeans

  Steve Kluger (2009). “Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel”, p.241, Zondervan

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• Say 'Kenmore Square'," I insist. "Kenmaw Sqway-ah." "Say 'Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.'" "Nothing could be finah than to be in Caroliner.'" "You're doing that on purpose." "I'm not. I sway-ah.

  Steve Kluger

  Squares, Purpose, Carolina

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.133, Penguin

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• Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and sharing The Grateful Dead and James Taylor with me in the middle of the night, and believing me when I say that you could be bigger than both of them put together, and not making fun of me for straightening out my french fries or pointing my shoelaces in the same direction, and letting me pout when I don't get my own way, and pretending that if I play "Flower Drum Song" one more time you won't throw me and the record out the window

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  Song, Fun, Grateful

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• Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself

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  Fall, About Yourself, Facing The Truth

  Steve Kluger (2009). “Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel”, p.158, Zondervan

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• 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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• And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan

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  Character, Musical, Biographies

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.38, 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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• 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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• 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.

  Steve Kluger

  Giving Up, Believe, Don't Give Up

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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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• 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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• We make families of our own, Travis whispered in my arms on the last night we spent together. It starts with you and me and then it spreads. And whatever happens, there’ll always be a part of me that’s part of you. No matter what.

  Steve Kluger

  Night, Together, Arms

  Steve Kluger (2009). “Almost Like Being in Love: A Novel”, p.232, Zondervan

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