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da7f2db
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This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.
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love
nick-hornby
self-hate
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Nick Hornby |
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fa44099
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Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There's the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there's the size-doesn't-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem...and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.
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sex
man
men
humour
humor
hornby
nick-hornby
manly
manliness
nick
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Nick Hornby |
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7d03d0a
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You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.
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relationships
change
nick-hornby
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Nick Hornby |
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16dad1d
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You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
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relationships
nick-hornby
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Nick Hornby |
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5e1beaf
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[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.
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love
nick-hornby
self-hate
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Nick Hornby |
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f765d88
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There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.
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people
love
nick-hornby
lucky
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Nick Hornby |
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a0cb19c
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But there was an important and essential truth contained in the idea, and the truth was that these things matter, and it's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently, or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.
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music
love
nick-hornby
records
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Nick Hornby |
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b77dea1
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What good were real feelings anyway?
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feelings
nick-hornby
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Nick Hornby |
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aa27e1a
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It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own.
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fever-pitch
football-fan
nick-hornby
football
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Nick Hornby |
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d0dc099
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Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.
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literature
nick-hornby
literature-quotes
novel
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Nick Hornby |
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25bc8eb
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"...[W]hen's it all going to f***ing stop? I'm going to jump from rock to rock for the rest of my life until there aren't any rocks left? I'm going to run each time I get itchy feet? Because I get them about once a quarter, along with the utilities bills. More than that, even... I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have s*** for brains. I know what's wrong with Laura. What's wrong with Laura is that I'll never see her for the first or second or third time again. I'll never spend two or three days in a sweat trying to remember what she looks like, never again will I get to a pub half an hour early to meet her staring at the same article in a magazine and looking at my watch every thirty seconds, never again will thinking about her set something off in me like "Let's Get it On" sets something off in me. And sure, I love her and like her and have good conversations, nice sex and intense rows with her, and she looks after me and worries about me and arranges the Groucho for me, but what does all that count for, when someone with bare arms, a nice smile, and a pair of Doc Martens comes into the shop and says she wants to interview me? Nothing, that's what, but maybe it should count for a bit more."
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nick-hornby
real-love
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Nick Hornby |
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fed1074
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A la mayoria de la gente le cabe en la cabeza el suicidio, supongo; la mayoria de la gente, aunque lo tenga muy oculto en lo mas profundo de si misma, puede recordar alguna vez en la vida en la que penso si realmente queria despertar a la manana siguiente. Querer morir parece una parte de estar vivo.
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en-picado
nick-hornby
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Nick Hornby |
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41b3f6d
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What came first - the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?
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music
nick-hornby
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Nick Hornby |