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• Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic 'scientists', now claims that you can email homeopathic remedies? Yeah, see, what you do is you can take the 'memory' of the diluted substance out of the water electromagnetically, put it on your computer, email it, and play it back on a sound card into new water. I mean, that could work, right?

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  Memories, Mean, Play

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of.

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  Book, Adults, Criminals

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

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• That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

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  Mother, Cereal, Laughing

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.66, Penguin

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• You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

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  Believe, Character, People

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.85, Penguin

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• On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them

  Nick Hornby

  New Year, Years, People

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.140, Penguin

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• So now what? What happens when words fail us?

  Nick Hornby

  Failing, Happens

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• She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies. It wouldn't have been much, and it wouldn't have been useful, but it would have been something that reflected the gravity and the sadness inside her. Instead, she had snapped at him for being a loser. It was as if she were trying to find a handhold on the boulder of her feelings, and had merely ended up with grit under her nails.

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  Sadness, Feelings, Tragedy

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.224, Penguin UK

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