“Everything you say is contradictory. You can't have been in one place...” – Young journalist, Mr. Nobody ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from Mr. Nobody 2009

Young journalist

Everything you say is contradictory. You can't have been in one place and another at the same time. Of all those lives, which one is the right one?

Nemo aged 118

Each of these lives is the right one! Every path is the right path. Everything could have been anything else and it would have just as much meaning.

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