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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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Where words fail, music speaks.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
— George Eliot
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When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.
— Wilfred Funk
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When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the…
— Unknown Author
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Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled…
— Percy Cerutty
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When words fail, the guitar speaks.
— George Szell
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I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The…
— Hilary Mantel
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Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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So now what? What happens when words fail us?
— Nick Hornby
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I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally…
— Jacques Lacan
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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