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I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Love in the Time of Cholera, and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography Cash by Johnny C

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Nick Hornby
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 17
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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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A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.
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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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You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.
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Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.
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I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
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The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
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...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.
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