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Ne be problem, misleshe si D'nkan, che dvamata s Ani nikoga ne se biakha obichali. Tiakhnoto beshe brak po smetka i do tozi moment funktsionirashe prekrasno - priiatelite im biakha s'postavili staratelno interesite i kharakterite im i pretsenkata im se be okazala tochna. Toi nikoga ne be izpitval zhelanie da si tr'gne, kakto dve sv'rzani parcheta ot p'zela ne se d'rpat edno ot drugo. Ako chovek si predstavi parcheta ot p'zel s chuvstva, to ..
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Po-k'sno u doma, piiana, tia se poddade na niakakva predkoitalna t'ga. Khrumna i, che povecheto ot t'gite i biakha predkoitalni. I kak da b'de inache, sled kato po-goliamata chast ot zhivota beshe predkoitalna? No sega chuvstvashe t'gata po-ostro ot drug p't, mozhe bi poradi tova, che i perspektivata za koitus beshe po-neposredstvena.
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Chetiriiset i edna minuti po-k'sno, dokato roveshe iz dzhobovete si za neshcho, koeto mozheshe da izpolzva vmesto k'rpichka, k'm nego se priblizhi v'zrastna zhena i go dokosna po ramoto. - Iskate li da si pogovorite s niakogo? - kaza tia vnimatelno. - O! Blagodaria. Ne, ne, dobre s'm. Toi dokosna litseto si - beshe plakal. - Siguren li ste? Ne izglezhdate dobre. - Naistina. Prosto... Prosto toku-shcho izzhiviakh neshcho mnogo silno. - Toi i..
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Kurkov loves his weltschmerz as much as the next guy--but he doesn't see why weltschmerz shouldn't come bundled up with a narrative that kicks a little bit of ass--the edge of the left cheek, say.
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La musica sentimental tiene la especial cualidad de llevarte hacia atras en el tiempo a la vez que te lleva hacia delante, y por eso te sientes nostalgico y esperanzado a la vez.
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hornby
gordon
pop
fidelity
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A few years ago, Cindy joined one of those dreadful reading groups, where unhappy, repressed middle class lesbians talk for five minutes about some novel they don't understand and then spend the rest of the evening moaning about how dreadful men are.
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Keeping in touch with the things that help us feel alive - music, books, movies, even the theatre if, mysteriously, you are that way inclined - becomes a battle, and one that many of us lose, as we get older;
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This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it.
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Nick Hornby |
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I have no idea what the record for being effectively dead is, but Fabrice Muamba didn't seem to have broken it.
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Nick Hornby |
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When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.
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I watched a lot of drunk players, too, I learned from the autobiographies published after they had retired.
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In retrospect, their best chance of doing it this way was against Arsenal, in the game they won 8-2. They only needed another nine that afternoon - and they missed at least fifteen good chances.
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But enough already of what grammarians will recognize as the third conditional: if + pluperfect + would.
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Sembra quasi che se metti la musica (e i libri, probabilmente, e i film, e il teatro, e qualsiasi cosa che procuri emozioni) al primo posto, non riuscirai mai a chiarire la tua vita amorosa, e non arriverai mai a considerarla come un prodotto finito. Ci troverai sempre qualcosa da ridire, starai sempre in subbuglio, e continuerai a criticare e a cercare di dipanare la matassa finche non va tutto a rotoli e devi ricominciare daccapo. Forse n..
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When they - I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.
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Is there a reason for the sudden fashion for the eight-goal tie? Maybe it's because defending is hard, and boring, and thankless, and most people who are paid a six-figure sum weekly do very little that is hard or boring or thankless.
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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
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I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life is so uproarious, which it invariably is, there is no suitable context for the gloom.
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All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when he had got as far away from school and reality as it was possible to go, he was reasonably happy; then it would begin the return journey, thump him on the head, and leave him in exactly the place he had started from. And all the time it got nearer and nearer to the morning.
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thoughts
imagination
dreams
visions
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My friend Simon managed only sixteen of the seventeen League games - he smashed his head on a bookshelf in London a few hours before the Grimsby game on the 28th of Decemebr; his girlfriend had to take his car keys away from him because he kept making dazed attempts to drive from Fulham up to the Abbey.
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There aren't too many candlelit dinners and second honeymoons, I can tell you. We're beyond all that. We're good friends more than anything.
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Nick Hornby |
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Talan mi tul magas langon eljuk az eletunket, mi, akik egesz nap erzelmes dolgokat szivunk magunkba, es emiatt aztan soha nem tudjuk egyszeruen csak elegedettnek erezni magunkat: az kell, hogy vagy boldogtalanok legyunk, vagy eksztatikusan, eszveszejtoen boldogok, marpedig ezeket az erzelmi allapotokat nehez elerni egy stabil, nyugodt kapcsolaton belul.
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Annyira szeretnek bocsanatot kerni attol a kiskolyoktol: ,,Sajnalom, cserbenhagytalak. En vagyok az az ember, akinek igazabol gondoskodnia kellett volna rolad, de en elrontottam: rossz donteseket hoztam a legrosszabb pillanatokban, es elinteztem, hogy az legyen beloled, aki vagyok.
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easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret.
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There was an awful lot to be said for familiarity, if you thought about it. It was an extremely underrated virtue, ignorable until the very moment that you were in danger of losing whatever or whoever it was that was familiar--a house, a view, a partner.
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the-familiar
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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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Actually, I can see one advantage to the Western way of thinking, which is that if someone has a name, you know what to call them, don't you? It's only one small advantage, and there are millions of big disadvantages, including the biggest one of all, which is that names are really fascist and don't allow us to express ourselves as human beings, and turn us into one thing.
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You have potential. I'm here to bring that out." "Potential as what?" "As a human being. You have all the basic ingredients. You're really likable, when you put your mind to it. You make people laugh, when you can be bothered, and you're kind, and when you decide you like someone then that person feels as though she's the center of the whole world, and that's a very sexy feeling. It's just that most of the time you can't be bothered."
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There are many ways in which songs differ from books, but both songwriters and novelists are looking for material that will somehow mean something beyond itself, something that contains echoes and ironies and texture and complication. something both timely and timeless
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She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their ex-partners. To admit that Duncan wasn't up to much was to own up publicly to the terrible waste of time, and terrible lapses in judgment and taste. She had stuck up for Spandau Ballet in just the same way at school, even after she had stopped liking them.
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And you probably also know that when you look out of an aeroplane window and see the world shrink like that, you can't help but think about the whole of your life, from the beginning until where you are now, and everyone you've ever known. And you'll know that thinking about those things makes you feel grateful to God for providing them, and angry with Him for not helping you to understand them better, and so you end up in a terrible muddle..
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I'll have got him out of my system." "I hope not." "Really?" "What would there be left of you, if you did?"
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Nick Hornby |
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All sorts of pieces of music are constantly being described as 'sexy', but that doesn't necessarily mean that you'd want them to accompany lovemaking. Most of them, in fact, are sexual substitutes, rather than sexual accompaniments - music for people who aren't getting any (or won't be until they get home) rather than people who are.
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One of the problems, it seems to me, is that we have got it into our heads that books should be hard work, and that unless they're hard work, they're not doing us any good.
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How could there be a bad song called 'Iron Man', or 'War Pigs', or - my cup ranneth over - 'Rat Salad'?
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Nick Hornby |
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We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the no..
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She stopped typing. If she'd been using pen and paper, she would have screwed the paper up in disgust, but there wasn't a satisfying equivalent with e-mail, seeing as everything was designed to stop you making a mistake. She needed a fuck-it key, something that made a satisfying ka-boom noise when you thumped it.
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They were all waiting for a man. Men were going to scoop them up in a net and take them home and put them into an even smaller tank. Not all of them were waiting to find a man, because some of them had already found one, but it didn't stop the waiting. A few were waiting for a man to make up his mind and fewer still, the lucky ones, were waiting for a man who'd already made up his mind to make enough money. Barbara
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Musicians had been assholes since the day the lute was invented,
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I am cowed--by her intelligence, and her ferocity, and the way she's always right. Or at least, she's always right enough to shut me up. 5.
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those places are reserved for the kind of humiliations are heartbreaks that you're just not capable of delivering. That probably sounds crueler than it is meant to, but the fact is that we're too old to make each other miserable, and that's a good thing, not a bad thing...
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When you're as ill-read as I am, routinely ignoring the literature of the entire non-English-speaking world seems like a minor infraction.
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Nick Hornby |
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Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else. I don't listen to classical music or jazz very often, and when people ask me what music I like, I find it very difficult to reply, because they usually want names of people, and I can only give them song titles. And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when..
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She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything
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