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If I tried to read every book I was asked to
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The Wild Pear Tree

If I tried to read every bookI was asked to, how would I ever write my own?

If I tried to read every book
I was asked to, how would I ever write my own?

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If I tried to read every book I was asked to,
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how would I ever write my own?
Duration
7 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
01:15:11
Uploaded
Jun 26, 2025
Genres
drama
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

An unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.
You don't go to the Teachers' Club, - The Wild Pear Tree 00:06
You don't go to the Teachers' Club,
Reading the paper. I'll go there later. - The Wild Pear Tree 00:04
Reading the paper. I'll go there later.
How can you be so relaxed - The Wild Pear Tree 00:07
How can you be so relaxed
What are you saying? Because I'm reading the paper? - The Wild Pear Tree 00:05
What are you saying? Because I'm reading the paper?
Reading because you have to. Because you don't have... - The Wild Pear Tree 00:04
Reading because you have to. Because you don't have...
When I see the bigwigs he used to hang around with, - The Wild Pear Tree 00:08
When I see the bigwigs he used to hang around with,
Who were these bigwigs? - The Wild Pear Tree 00:04
Who were these bigwigs?
I don't know. Head teachers, - The Wild Pear Tree 00:08
I don't know. Head teachers,
Yes. Decent, honest people. - The Wild Pear Tree 00:05
Yes. Decent, honest people.
And with gambling for years, - The Wild Pear Tree 00:09
And with gambling for years,
He'd only gamble it away again. - The Wild Pear Tree 00:04
He'd only gamble it away again.
What else would it do? Wait for you to do something? - The Wild Pear Tree 00:05
What else would it do? Wait for you to do something?
Nothing. I'm just saying time marches on. - The Wild Pear Tree 00:04
Nothing. I'm just saying time marches on.
Someone once called time a silent saw - The Wild Pear Tree 00:07
Someone once called time a silent saw
"I'm walking along a road, - The Wild Pear Tree 00:10
"I'm walking along a road,
About time not waiting - The Wild Pear Tree 00:06
About time not waiting
- You got everything you wanted. - He put me in a faith dorm to avoid paying. - The Wild Pear Tree 00:05
- You got everything you wanted. - He put me in a faith dorm...
At 40 you have to start babysitting - The Wild Pear Tree 00:06
At 40 you have to start babysitting
That's different. Just look around you. - The Wild Pear Tree 00:04
That's different. Just look around you.
Other fathers are violent, they drink. - The Wild Pear Tree 00:05
Other fathers are violent, they drink.