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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008

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I wanna remember us just as we are now.

#qt3941777-3 / read by Teja-84

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We finally caught up with each other.

#qt3941777-2 / read by VIVEK-96

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I figured... you are born in 1918... 49 years ago... I'm 43... We are almost the same age. Meeting in the middle.

#qt3941777-1 / read by Teja-84

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Queenie, some creatures weren't meant to survive.

#qt3007948 / read by Shriram-60

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Well captain, you *did* drink a lot.

#qt1201375-3 / read by Teja-84

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Now, either I drank a hell of a lot more than I think I did, or you spry'd up. What's your secret?

#qt1201375-2 / read by Akanksha-14

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Why is it when you showed up you were no bigger than a pollard with one foot in the grave.

#qt1201375-1 / read by Teja-84

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It's funny how sometimes the people we remember the least make the greatest impression on us.

#qt1201374 / read by Teja-84

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You as ugly as an old pot, but you still a child of God...

#qt1201373 / read by Shuja-34

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It's not about how well you play, it's how you feel about what you play.

#qt1136122 / read by Shriram-60

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Loving you is worth everything to me...

#qt0547577 / read by Shriram-60

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My sister's child. From Lafayette. She had an unfortunate adventure. The poor child, he got the worst of it. Come out white.

#qt0544427 / read by Akanksha-14

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Fat people, skinny people, tall people, white people... they just as alone as us... but they scared shitless.

#qt0523962-3 / read by Shuja-34

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But I tell you a little secret I find out. We know we alone.

#qt0523962-2 / read by Akanksha-14

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You'll see little man, plenty of times you be alone. You different like us, it's gonna be that way.

#qt0523962-1 / read by Shriram-60

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I broke a heel! I don't make it a point to walk about in my stocking feet!

#qt0519956 / read by Shriram-60

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We all end up in diapers.

#qt0511026 / read by Shriram-60

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You haven't been with many women, have you?

#qt0508170 / read by VIVEK-96

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And I think, right there and then, she realized none of us is perfect forever.

#qt0507614-2 / read by VIVEK-96

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I promise you, I'll never lose myself to self-pity again.

#qt0507614-1 / read by VIVEK-96

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You never know what's coming for you.

#qt0506105 / read by VIVEK-96

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Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance.

#qt0505382-2 / read by VIVEK-96

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Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music.

#qt0505382-1 / read by VIVEK-96

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And in the spring, 2003, he looked at me. And I knew, that he knew, who I was. And then he closed his eyes, as if to go to sleep.

#qt0505381 / read by VIVEK-96

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Everyone feels different about themselves one way or another, but we all goin' the same way.

#qt0505378-2 / read by VIVEK-96

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Momma? Momma? Some days, I feel different than the day before.

#qt0505378-1 / read by Teja-84

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But you know what? God keeps reminding me I'm lucky to be alive.

#qt0504848-4 / read by VIVEK-96

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Blinded in one eye; can't hardly hear. I get twitches and shakes out of nowhere; always losing my line of thought.

#qt0504848-3 / read by VIVEK-96

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Once I was just crossing the road to get the mail. Once, I was walking my dog down the road.

#qt0504848-2 / read by Shriram-60

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Did I ever tell you I been struck by lightning seven times? Once when I was repairing a leak on the roof.

#qt0504848-1 / read by Teja-84

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Poor child, he got the worst of it. Come out white.

#qt0504787 / read by Shriram-60

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You never know what's comin' for ya.

#qt0504721 / read by Subhajit-81

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You could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

#qt0504720-2 / read by Teja-84

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You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went.

#qt0504720-1 / read by VIVEK-96

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Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

#qt0504718 / read by VIVEK-96

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I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

#qt0504699-5 / read by Shuja-34

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I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view.

#qt0504699-4 / read by Teja-84

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_We can make_ the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you.

#qt0504699-3 / read by VIVEK-96

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There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.

#qt0504699-2 / read by Shuja-34

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For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

#qt0504699-1 / read by Shuja-34

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Did you know that I was struck by lightning seven times?

#qt0504553 / read by Shriram-60

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.. _that taxi did not go_ by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed.

#qt0504294-l / read by VIVEK-96

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But life being what it is - a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control ..

#qt0504294-k / read by Shriram-60

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.. _or that woman had_ remembered her coat, and got into an earlier cab, Daisy and her friend would've crossed the street, and the taxi would've driven by.

#qt0504294-j / read by VIVEK-96

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.. or that package had been wrapped and ready, because the girl hadn't broken up with her boyfriend ..

#qt0504294-h / read by Shuja-34

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And if only one thing had happened differently: if that shoelace hadn't broken; or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier ..

#qt0504294-g / read by Shuja-34

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_While the taxi was_ stopped, waiting for a traffic light, Daisy and her friend came out the back of the theater.

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The delivery truck pulled away and the taxi was able to move, while Daisy, the last to be dressed, waited for one of her friends, who had broken a shoelace.

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When the package was wrapped, the woman, who was back in the cab, was blocked by a delivery truck, all the while Daisy was getting dressed.

#qt0504294-d / read by Teja-84

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.. _because the girl_ who was supposed to wrap it had broken up with her boyfriend the night before, and forgot.

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And while Daisy was showering, the taxi was waiting outside a boutique for the woman to pick up a package, which hadn't been wrapped yet ..

#qt0504294-b / read by Teja-84

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_While that man, late for work_, was crossing the street, Daisy had finished rehearsing, and was taking a shower.

#qt0504294-a / read by VIVEK-96

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_The taxi_ had to stop for a man crossing the street, who had left for work five minutes later than he normally did, because he forgot to set off his alarm.

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And this cab driver, who dropped off the earlier fare; who'd stopped to get the cup of coffee, had picked up the lady who was going to shopping, and had missed getting an earlier cab.

#qt0504294-8 / read by Shuja-34

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Now a taxi driver had dropped off a fare earlier and had stopped to get a cup of coffee.

#qt0504294-7 / read by Shuja-34

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And while she was rehearsing, the woman, off the phone now, had gone outside to get a taxi.

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While the woman was on the phone, Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the Paris Opera House.

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When she had gotten her coat, the phone had rung, so she'd stopped to answer it; talked for a couple of minutes.

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A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping, but she had forgotten her coat - went back to get it.

#qt0504294-3 / read by Shriram-60

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Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it.

#qt0504294-2 / read by Teja-84

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Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it.

#qt0504294-1 / read by Subhajit-81

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What if I told you that instead of gettin' older, I was gettin' younger than everybody else?

#qt0504067 / read by Shuja-34

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I wanna remember us just as we are now.

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I'm always lookin' out my own eyes.

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_It's a funny_ thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.

#qt0504039 / read by VIVEK-96

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Promise me he'll have a place.

#qt0504007-2 / read by Subhajit-81

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I'm here. I came as soon as I could. The streets were wild. The war is over, Carrie.

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Would you still love ME if I were young and had acne? When I'm afraid of what's under the stairs? Or if I end up wetting the bed?

#qt0503879-2 / read by Teja-84

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Would you still love me if I were old and saggy?

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Our lives are defined by opportunities; even the ones we miss.

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Some things last.

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I was thinking how nothing lasts, and what a shame that is.

#qt0496324-1 / read by Shuja-34

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My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While everyone else was agin', I was gettin' younger... all alone.

#qt0372880 / read by Anagha-10

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