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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 lives when they…
- Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the…
- [H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of…
- I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and…
- Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get…
- I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or…
- 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,…
- The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.
- 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…
- I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
- There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that…
- All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You…
- Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through,…
- That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a…
- I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush…
- Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few…
- It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and…
- 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…
- So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you…
- [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when…
- Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things,…
- 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…
- I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get…
- We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same…
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