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I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.

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Nick Hornby
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 17
Essayist
Film Producer
Lyricist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Nicholas Peter John Hornby
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Salt
Cry
Tears
Blood
Eyes
Though
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Squeezed
Water
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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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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.
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An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.
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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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We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?
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Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini.
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The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.
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I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.
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[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.
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The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.
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Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.
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...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.
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You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.
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I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.
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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.
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It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.
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(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.
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I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.
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I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
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