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I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

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Reading, Maps, Empires

Nick Hornby (2006). “Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt”, McSweeneys Books

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I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it's going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn't have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn't want that.

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Moving, Thinking, Forever

"A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

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Chocolate, Ends, Scales

"A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.

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Reading, Sleep, Unhappy

Nick Hornby (2005). “A Long Way Down”, p.137, Penguin UK

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Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

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Dad, Years, Monkeys

Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.314, Penguin

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When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.

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Mother, Eye, Sides

Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.86, Penguin

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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 by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

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Suicidal, People, Far Away

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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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What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.

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Done, Taste, Harm

Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.65, Penguin

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I have a really low boredom threshold.

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Boredom, Lows, Threshold

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Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

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Book, Ideas, Clubs

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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

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Football, Radio, Common

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It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole.

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Crazy, Writing, Definitions

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Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.

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Heart, Swings, Cds

Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.186, Penguin

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Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there.

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Girl, Real, Hard Times

"A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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I'd thought I'd live with my wife, but I couldn't find one.

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Wife, My Wife

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Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.

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Hurt, Phones, Years

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It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.

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Reading, Opportunity, Air

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I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

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Past, Very Good, I Can

Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.95, Penguin

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…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

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Week, Happened

Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.141, Penguin

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He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings..." He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.

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Children, Sibling, Kids

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We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did not find the odor entirely repellent.

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Animal, Tanks, Odor

Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.18, Penguin

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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 reasons.

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People, Together, Different

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What good were real feelings anyway?

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Real, Feelings, Real Feelings

Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.127, Penguin

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...You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else.

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Pyramids, Long, People

Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.226, Penguin

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Born: April 17, 1957
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