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To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.

Nick Hornby

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Nick Hornby
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 17
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Nicholas Peter John Hornby
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I'd thought I'd live with my wife, but I couldn't find one.
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So now what? What happens when words fail us?
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I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
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Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad.
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...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.
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I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: She hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from.
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The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.
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But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.
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I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
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The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.
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