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If, during his engagement to Edith, someone had tried to explain how lonely marriage could be, he wouldn't have believed it.
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you had to do, it seemed, was ask for an inferior version of the life you'd had before and London would give it to you.
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not even sex, especially not sex, please God not sex, the filthiest and most terrifying invention of the early seventies.
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E' o non e un'ingiustizia che i leader mondiali si facciano strada non grazie alla loro capacita di risolvere problemi globali, ma di addormentarsi a comando? La maggior parte della gente perbene di notte fa fatica a dormire, e a quanto pare e proprio per questo che il mondo e un tale casino.
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if I do OK with women, it's not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don't have.
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Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breasts that I would try to touch her between her legs, a gesture that had a sort of self-parodying wit about it: it was like trying to borrow a fiver, getting turned down, and asking to borrow fifty quid instead. These
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She had been dumped a couple of years before by a sort of male equivalent to Charlie, a guy called Michael who wanted to be something at the BBC. (He never made it, the wanker, and each day we never saw him on TV or heard him on the radio, something inside us rejoiced.)
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back in gear, she closed the door on him. She leaned against it, felt the heat drain from her cheek into the cold wood. And then the dog was there with her in the narrow hallway. She smelled the meat on
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Of course, I have never had to take that long walk again, and my ears have not burned with quite the same fury, and I have never had to count the packs of cheap cigarettes in order to avoid mocking eyes and floods of tears...not really, not actually, not as such. It just feels that way, sometimes.
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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 have had to travel. 3.
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It didn't help, reminding herself that if she were back in Blackpool she'd spend the afternoon aching to be in London. It just made her feel that she'd never be happy anywhere.
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realistic
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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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Si, scrivere un libro all'anno e decisamente fattibile: basta buttare giu cinquecento parole al giorno (meno di un quarto di questa rubrica) all'incirca per otto mesi. Ma cosi rimangano soltanto quattro mesi per andare in vacanza, guardare i Mondiali, cazzeggiare su Internet, fare il giudice di premi letterari in localita esotiche, eccetera eccetera. E allora gli scrittori si danno una tabella di marcia molto piu comoda, un libro ogni due o..
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Forse la cosa migliore da fare, con i film e i libri preferiti, e lasciarli stare: se sono riusciti a esaltarci tanto, significa che sono arrivati nel posto giusto e al momento giusto della nostra vita, e queste sono condizioni che non si ripeteranno mai. Qualche volta ci vien voglia di riprenderli per vedere se sono davvero belli come nel ricordo, ma e un impulso di cui diffidare, perche suppone l'idea che il nostro giudizio critico miglio..
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Ia ne preziraiu klassicheskuiu muzyku za to, chto ee kul'tiviruiut, ia ne snob naiznanku. Mne ona ne nravitsia (ili, po krainei mere, ia k nei ravnodushen) potomu, chto ona zvuchit arkhaichno, za to, chto ona nikak ne kasaetsia chuvstv, sostavliaiushchikh soderzhanie dnia sego, nedeli i vsei zhizni, a eshche ia ne liubliu ee potomu, chto v nei net bek-vokalov, basovykh partii, gitarnykh solo, a eshche potomu, chto mnogie liudi, klianushchie..
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Liuboi akkord, prosteishii stroitel'nyi material dlia liuboi glupeishei pesenki, v to zhe vremia iavliaetsia prekrasnoi, tainstvennoi i sovershennoi veshch'iu. I kogda polugramotnyi, nekul'turnyi i emotsional'no nesderzhannyi khriak ob'ediniaet neskol'ko akkordov, u nego poiavliaetsia unikal'naia vozmozhnost' sozdat' nechto moshchnoe i prekrasnoe.
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The problem here is that unless a team is playing well, winning things, filling their stadia, clubs simply cannot afford to alienate the very
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Esli vy ne slyshali etu kompozitsiiu i imeete namerenie ee poslushat', zabud'te obo vsekh drugikh delakh na etot vecher, ubedites', chto vy v komnate ne odin (proslushivanie pesni v naushnikakh, skoree vsego, grozit vam gospitalizatsiei), i ne khodite na rabotu na sleduiushchii den'.
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Soidemsia na tom, chto samymi dolgovechnymi iavliaiutsia pesni o liubvi. Pesni o rabote tozhe khoroshi. Takzhe pesni o rekakh, o roditeliakh, o dorogakh. Khoroshie pesni o detiakh neobychaino redki (da, slozhno pisat' o chuvstvakh k svoemu rebenku tak, chtoby drugikh ne stoshnilo, no kakim-to zhe obrazom pesenniki nauchilis' vydavat' bezukoriznennye, poroi perekhvatyvaiushchie dykhanie pesni o top-modeliakh, vstrechennykh imi v klubnom tual..
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One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it. What
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Den musik man redan har racker inte en hel livstid, inte om man lyssnar pa musik varje dag och sa fort man kommer at.
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I'm going to take every chance I get to make a nuisance of myself when somebody I admire is in the vicinity...
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Top five things I miss about Laura...Two: she's got character...she's loyal and honest, and she doesn't even take it out on people when she's having a bad day. That's character.
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Tol'ko istoriia vyneset prigovor - stanet li miss Furtado bol'shim khudozhnikom, i khotia ia podozrevaiu, chto vriad li ona reshitel'no izmenila moi vzgliad na mir, ia dumaiu eto ne tak vazhno: ia vsegda budu ei priznatelen za to, chto ona sozdala vo mne naviazchivoe zhelanie slushat' ee pesniu snova i snova. V kontse kontsov, eto bezobidnaia zavisimost', legko udovletvorimaia, a v mire takikh ne slishkom mnogo.
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Neskol'ko raz v godu ia sostavliaiu dlia sebia kassetu, chtoby stavit' ee v mashine, sbornik pesen, kotorye poliubilis' mne za poslednie neskol'ko mesiatsev, i kazhdyi raz, kogda ia ego zakanchivaiu, ia ne veriu, chto kogda-nibud' mne ponadobitsia drugoi. I vse-taki eto povtoriaetsia s zavidnoi reguliarnost'iu, i kazhdyi raz ia s neterpeniem zhdu sleduiushchego. Vam nuzhno vsego lish' eshche neskol'ko soten takikh veshchei, i vasha zhizn' b..
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Vot v chem zakliuchaetsia real'naia lozh' shok-arta: takoe iskusstvo nastaivaet na svoei demokratichnosti, no eta demokratichnost' tol'ko dlia tekh, kto mozhet ee sebe pozvolit'. I mnogie iz nas, stav starshe, vnezapno ponimaiut, chto u nas net bol'she sil i zhelaniia rastrachivat' sebia.
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Det var nastan som att upptacka en forfattare man inte last, fast man stoter i och for sig hela tiden pa forfattare som man inte har last medan det ar mycket sallsynt, atminstone i vuxen alder, att man plotsligt hittar en stor popartist som har gett ut massor av bra skivor. Oftast ar det fordomar snarare an okunnighet som gor att man missar stora artister, och fordomar ar svara att gora sig av med (det ar ju sa roligt att fa dem bekraftade)..
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Ecco che senso ha stare insieme. Tu hai un certo potenziale. E io sono qui per farlo emergere.>>
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Quando sei infelice, secondo me, tutto nel mondo - leggere, mangiare, dormire - ha chiuso dentro qualcosa, da qualche parte, che serve a renderti ancora piu infelice
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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?
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No one's stopping you," said Jess. "But you've got to make it more interesting. That's why why we drift off and talk about biscuits."
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There was a lot of work to do, and arguments to have, and kids to take care of, and money to find from somewhere, and sleep to lose. I could do it, though. I could see that. I wouldn't be sitting here now if I couldn't do it, would I? I think that's what Tony Hawk was trying to tell me all along.
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partially satisfied by grazing on the first few pages of several books, and as a consequence, there are half-chewed novels lying all over the place. At least, I'm presuming they're lying all over the place; I seem to have temporarily lost most of them. When the World Cup is over, and we clear away the piles of betting slips and wall charts, some of them will, presumably, reappear. I wrote in this column recently about Muriel Spark's novels,..
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Then I lost it. Kinda lost it all, you know. Faith, dignity, about fifteen pounds.
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What if a sense of humour is like hair -- something a lot of man lose as they get older?
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