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As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.
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And after tea, we play Junior Scrabble. We are the ideal nuclear family. We eat together, we play improving board games instead of watching television, we smile alot. I fear that at any moment I may kill somebody.
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By the early seventies I had become an Englishman — that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.
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He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.
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I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and, frankly, I think my guts have shit for brains.
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For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.
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It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.
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We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.
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We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.
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I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.
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It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself
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It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
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Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
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I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments.
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There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.
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All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.
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Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
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I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?
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It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead
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The chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads.
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It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.
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Just because it's a relationship, and it's based on soppy stuff, it doesn't mean you can't make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes you just have to, otherwise you'll never get anywhere. That's where I've been going wrong. I've been letting the weather and my stomach muscles and a great chord change in a Pretenders single make up my mind for me, and I want to do it for myself.
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I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think.
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But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.
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Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
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Born:
April 17, 1957
(age 67)
Bio:
Nicholas Peter John "Nick" Hornby is an English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels High Fidelity and About a Boy.
Known for:
High Fidelity (1995)
Funny Girl (2014)
Fever Pitch (1992)
A Long Way Down (2005)
About a Boy (1998)
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