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“The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.” quote by Nick Hornby — Download Open image

“The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.”

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I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

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“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day r year, but there was a picnic table and a grill out there anyway. Those little grills are everywhere in England, right? To me they've come to represent the trumph of hope over circumstance, seeing as…

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