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When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

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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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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The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.
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You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.
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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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So now what? What happens when words fail us?
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I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.
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