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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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The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every…
— Victor LaValle
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Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the…
— Brendan Gleeson
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There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in…
— George Takei
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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of…
— John Irving
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Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you…
— Nick Hornby
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Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it…
— Sarah Waters
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Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on…
— C.S. Lewis
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Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?
— Jacqueline Carey
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Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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