"The horror! The horror!"
"Bye bye, boys! Have fun storming the castle!"
"Think it'll work?"
"It'd take a miracle. Bye bye!"
"And we turn him into an anecdote, to dine out on, like we're doing right now. But it was an experience. I will not turn him into an anecdote. How do we keep what happens to us? How do we fit it into life without turning it into an anecdote, with no teeth, and a punch line you'll mouth over and over, years to come: 'Oh, that reminds me of the time that impostor came into our lives. Oh, tell the one about that boy.' And we become these human jukeboxes, spilling out these anecdotes. But it was an experience. How do we keep the experience?" (That one is Ouisa Kitteridge from Six Degrees of Separation which is one of the most brilliant films of our time. If you haven't seen it, see it. Will Smith just totally tears the screen up, and Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland are excellent.)
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