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I can see everything once it's already happened--I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
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Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three, even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. (What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.)
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It had only taken me six years to change from a ten-year-old to a sixteen-year-old; surely six years wasn't long enough for a transformation of that magnitude.
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humor
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The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and singing 'Yellow Submarine' at the top of my voice in the back row of the coach on school trips. They belong to me, not to me and Laura, or me and Charlie, or me and Alison Ashworth, and though they'll make me feel something, they won't make me feel anything bad.
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relationships
music
the-beatles
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We wrote about whatever we wanted, and we ended up with eighteen million people watching us. That's the thing about television comedy, isn't it? It makes us all a part of something. That's what I love about it.
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And also, what kind of job was comic magician? She didn't think she could bear to be married to a comic magician, even if his breath were sweeter than Parma violets and his kisses were like atom bombs. Comic magicians belonged on seaside piers. Comic magicians were what she had come to London to escape, not to find, and certainly not to marry.
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What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? 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 h..
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Que fue primero: la musica o la tristeza? ?Me dio por escuchar musica porque estaba triste? ?O es que estaba triste porque escuchaba musica? ?No te convierten todos esos discos en una persona de tendencia melancolica? Hay quien se preocupa, y mucho, de que los ninos pequenos jueguen con armas de fuego, de que los adolescentes vean videos en los que la violencia es moneda corriente; nos da miedo que esa esa especie de cultura de la violencia..
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A critical faculty is a terrible thing. When I was eleven there were no bad films, just films I didn't want to see, there was no bad food, just Brussels sprouts and cabbage, and there were no bad books - everything I read was great. Then suddenly, I woke up in the morning and all that had changed. How could my sister not hear that David Cassidy was not in the same class as Black Sabbath? Why on EARTH would my English teacher think that 'The..
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Being a freak isn't the same thing as having a talent.
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I'm the one who should apologize,' he said. 'I want to help, but I know I won't be able to. I haven't go the answers to anything.' 'That's what men think, isn't it?' 'What?' 'That unless you've got some answer, unless you can say, "Oh, I know this bloke in Essex Road who can fix that for you", then it's not worth bothering.' Will shifted in his seat and didn't say anything. That was precisely what he thought; in fact, he had spent half the ..
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men-and-women
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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 a 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. Maybe Al Green is directly responsible for more than I ever realized.
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What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever changing a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids. Nor is it possible to foresee the desperation and depression, that sense that your life is over, the occasional urge to hit your whining child, even though hitting them is something you knew for a fact you wou..
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a futballszurkolo termeszetes allapota a keseru csalodottsag, fuggetlenul az eredmenytol.
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Nick Hornby |
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Is it so wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music..
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You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what's really happening.
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That's what family stories were--amusing accounts of the messes and the fuckups. Take away the love and the laughter, narrate the stories as if the characters had acted with malice and self-absorption, and everybody was in a bleak independent film about alcoholism and schizophrenia and child abuse.
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Defanscilar her zaman forvetcilerden daha iyi analizcilerdir.
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bu kitap minimalist bir ressamla ilgili ve konu minimalist sanat oldugu zaman fark ettim ki ben agnostik hatta belki ateistim. Bu kelimeleri kullaniyorum cunku bence minimalizme ya inanirsiniz ya da inanmazsiniz -bir Hockney, bir Hopper ya da bir Monet soz konusu oldugunda size taninmayan bir sanstir bu. Karsimizda Irwin var (sans bu ya sevilesi, dusunceli bir adam) turuncu bir zemin uzerinde turlu duz cizgilerden ibaret olan en son desen c..
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minimalist-sanat
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Nen sajnaltam se a csapatot, se a tobbi szurkolot, csakis magamat sajnaltam, es most mar tudom, hogy a futballbanat mindig ilyen. Amikor a csapatunk kikap a Wembleyben, a kollegainkra vagy az osztalytarsainkra gondolunk, akikkel hetfo reggel szembe kell neznunk, es az euforiara, amelytol az elet megfosztott bennunket, es ilyenkor megfogadjuk, hogy soha az eletben nem leszunk meg egyszer ilyen sebezhetok.
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My companions for the afternoon were affable, welcoming middle-aged men in their late thirties and early forties who simply had no conception of the import of the afternoon for the rest of us. To them it was an afternoon out, a fun thing to do on a Saturday afternoon; if I were to meet them again, they would, I think, be unable to recall the score that afternoon, or the scorer (at half-time they talked office politics), and in a way I envie..
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football
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Everyone knows the song that Millwall fans sing, to the tune of ,,Sailing": 'No one likes us/No one likes us/No one likes us/We don't care.' In fact I have always felt that the song is a little melodramatic, and that if anyone should sing it, it is Arsenal. Every Arsenal fan, the youngest and the oldest, is aware that no one likes us, and every day we hear that dislike reiterated."
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football
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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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Quasi tutta la gente ha una corda che la lega a qualcuno, e la corda puo essere corta, oppure lunga. E che tu non lo sai quanto e lunga. Non e tua la scelta.
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Jen leggeva. Amava i libri... io, no: a me facevano paura. Mi facevan paura quando c'era lei, e me ne fanno di piu adesso. Che cosa avevano dentro? Che cosa le hanno detto quando era infelice e ascoltava solo loro, e nessun altro - ne le sue amiche ne sua sorella, nessuno?
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Capisci che non stai andando bene quando non puoi raccontare agli altri i fatti piu semplici della tua vita, solo perche immaginerebbero che gli stai chiedendo pieta. Secondo me e per questo che una si sente cosi lontana da tutti, alla fine: qualunque cosa pensi di dirgli, finisce sempre che li fai star male.
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What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids. And nor do you think about your husband waking up in the morning being someone you don't recognize. If anyone thought about any of these things, then no one would ever get married. In fact, the impulse to ma..
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marriage
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There aren't any buts," said Bill. "That's the whole point of being a writer, isn't it? If I wanted buts, I'd go and work in a fucking but factory."
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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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loneliness
depression
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Nick Hornby |
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What came first--the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music?
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Nick Hornby |
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You're fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You haven't got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills and no education, and now you're looking at forty or fifty years of nothing. Less than nothing, probably. That's pretty heavy. That's worse than having the brain thing, because what you got now will take a lot longer to kill you. You've got the choi..
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for a while, I regarded just about any song in which somebody had lost somebody else as spookily relevant, which, as that covers the whole of pop music, and as I worked in a record shop, meant I felt pretty spooked more or less the whole time),
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A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners, a two-or three-page multiple-choice document that covered all the music/film/TV/book bases. It was intended a) to dispense with awkward conversation, and b) to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might, at a later date, turn out to have every J..
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Some of my favorite songs: 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' by Neil Young; 'Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me' by the Smiths; 'Call Me' by Aretha Franklin; 'I Don't Want to Talk About It' by anybody. And then there's 'Love Hurts' and 'When Love Breaks Down' and 'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart' and 'The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness' and 'She's Gone' and 'I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself 'and . . . some of these songs I..
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music
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Barbara began to imagine the pretty girls working in Derry and Toms as beautiful tropical fish in a tank, swimming up and down, up and down, in serene disappointment, with nowhere to go and nothing to see that they hadn't seen a million times before.
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The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved.
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Jackie and Phil are the most boring people in the southeast of England, possibly because they've been married too long, and therefore have nothing to talk about, apart from how long they've been married. In the end, I am reduced to asking them, in a joking sort of way, for the secret of their success; I was only saving time, because I think they would have told me anyway.
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It's not like anyone said anything that's memorable, or wise, or acute; it's more a mood thing. For the first time in my life I felt as though I'm in an episode of thirtysomethibng rather than an episode of... of... of some sitcom that hasn't been made yet about three guys who work in a record shop and talk about sandwich fillings an sax solos all day, and I love it. And I know thirtysomethibng is soppy and cliche'd and American and naff, I..
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Forse noi viviamo troppo protesi verso un apice, dico noi che assorbiamo emozioni da mattina a sera, e di conseguenza non riusciamo a sentirci semplicemente contenti: noi dobbiamo essere o disperati o al settimo cielo e questi stati d'animo sono difficili da raggiungere in una relazione stabile e solida.
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Nick Hornby |
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And now here Annie was, allowing her day to become gloriously colored by a communication from a man she'd never even met.
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Nick Hornby |
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There have been times recently, since the begining of our troubles, when the site of David awake active, conscious, walking and talking has made me want to retch, so acute is my loathing of him.
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I can't help but love David at this moment. He's calm when he has every right to be angry with everything and everyone, and as a result I feel, for the first time in a long time, that we are a unit,
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But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know where my street is; I don't even know which part of town it's in, which city, which country, so maybe she'll enable me to get my bearings.
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relationships
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Mis'lta, che mozhe da se nalozhi da prepodava vechno, beshe striaskala Ani nevedn'zh i tia dotolkova nenavizhdashe predishnata si rabota, che dori i sega zak'snenieto ot deset-petnaiset minuti, s koeto si pozvoliavashe da pristiga v muzeia, ia karashe da se chuvstva shchastliva. Za edin prepodavatel tezi petnaiset minuti shchiakha da sa unizitelna izd'nka, predizvikvashcha naprezhenie, zabelezhki i nedovolni kolegi, no na nikogo ne mu pukas..
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