Nick Hornby - High Fidelity (1995)

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I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

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People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands — literally thousands — of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

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Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostalgic and hopeful all at the same time.

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The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

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Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

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If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

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I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.

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It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.

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You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.

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My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

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Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.

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Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

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I've committed to nothing... and that's just suicide... by tiny, tiny increments.

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You have to work at relationships. You can't just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

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I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.

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That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

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Then I lost it. Kinda lost it all, you know. Faith, dignity, about fifteen pounds.

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