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But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat. (Nick Hornby)
It takes a child to say the unsayable. View quote
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You have to work at relationships. You can't just walk out on them every time something goes wrong. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep. View quote
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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. View quote
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Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system. View quote
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Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad". View quote
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Each day was a bad day, but he survived by kidding himself that each day was somehow unconnected to the day before. View quote
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And after tea, we play Junior Scrabble. We are the ideal nuclear family. We eat together, we play improving board games instead of watching television, we smile alot. I fear that at any moment I may kill somebody. View quote
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Single mothers - bright, attractive, available women, thousands of them all over London - they were the best invention Will had ever heard of. (Nick Hornby)
What if a sense of humour is like hair - something a lot of man lose as they get older? View quote
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These feelings were exactly what he had been so afraid of, and this was why he had been so sure that falling in love was rubbish, and, surprise surprise, it was rubbish, and ... and it was too late. View quote
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Then I lost it. Kinda lost it all, you know. Faith, dignity, about fifteen pounds. View quote
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Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. View quote
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I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them! View quote
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We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness? View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's? View quote
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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 these other people don't like them as much as I do. View quote
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I love the relationship that anyone has with music... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out.... It's the best part of us probably... (Nick Hornby)
I've committed to nothing... and that's just suicide... by tiny, tiny increments. View quote
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It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself. View quote
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She thought I was... soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off. View quote
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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. View quote
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