Finding Forrester

Jamal: Women will sleep with you if you write a book? Forrester: Women will sleep with you if you write a bad book.

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Jamal: I ain't seen nothin' change. Forrester: You 'ain't seen nothin'? What the hell kind of sentence is that?!

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Jamal: You ever enter one of those? Forrester: Writing contest? Jamal: Yeah. Forrester: Once, long time ago. Jamal: Did you win? Forrester: Well of course I won! Jamal: Like money or somethin’? Forrester: The Pulitzer.

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Jamal: I came back to see, if you could help me out with my writing. Forrester: Here's one: 5,000 words on why you'll stay the fuck out of my home!

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Forrester: In some cultures it's good luck to be wearing something inside-out. Jamal: And you believe that? Forrester: No, but it's like praying: what do you risk?

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Jamal: We've been talking about your book at school. Forrester: People have been talking about it for years. They just haven't been saying anything. Jamal: I think I got it down, though. I figure you were writing about how life never works out. Forrester: Really? You had to read a book to figure that out?

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