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And I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.

And I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.

Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern

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Matthew Quick
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Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1973; activity date not established; Wikidata Q3018710, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3018710 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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