Quotes by Peter Hedges

About Peter Hedges:

Peter Simpson Hedges is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
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In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

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These eggs are broken. Cracked." "Yes, ma'am. That happens sometimes." "Does it?" "Yes, it's the unfortunate part of being an egg.

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The more Christian you are in this town, the more makeup you wear. I've always thought that it's because if you were to die suddenly, you'd look better for God.

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I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers.

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How can you kill a man who'd already been dead for years?

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Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.

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Yeah, some days you die.

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It's supposed to go bing-bing or bong-bong or ding-ding when tires go over it. The one at Dave's stopped working several years ago, and he won't have it fixed because he feels as I do - that none of us need to be reminded we exist.

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She doesn't acknowledge Tucker, and there's no thank you for the cigarettes. She says a person shows their gratitude by action, not by words. So I guess that means she thanks me by smoking every cigarette in every pack.

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Gilbert?" Some days I hate all those who know my name.

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Who's calling?" "Don't insult me like that," the voice says. I stop. Was I just insulting?

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He loves to hide, but only if you take the time to find him. And while I suspect that's true for most people, only a retard or a kid would admit it.

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Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?

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I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

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I was seven when he hung himself, and I don't remember all that much, and anything I did remember, I've managed to forget.

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I stared at her - unable to accept that at one time I was growing inside her. I was once just a couple of cells. My father and my mother were naked something had to be satisfactory about it, because he came inside her and she got pregnant. She, like ...

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I devised a test. I turned off the TV and instantly the snoring stopped. She began to move. When I felt her eyes about to open, I turned the TV back on and back to sleep she went. Then I'd turn it off and on - sometimes for millisecond - and she neve...

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Author Bio

  • NamePeter Hedges
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, screenwriter, film director
  • BornJuly 6, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Director; Author; Novelist