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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their…
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd…
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Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
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[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the…
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One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to…
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Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
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I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much…
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Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
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Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
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I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but…
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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…
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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very…
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Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there…
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a…
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Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
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The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling.…
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And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you…
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All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until…
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I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it…
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Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't…
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The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important Book lovers will understand me, and they will know…
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