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When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.

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Nick Hornby
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 17
Essayist
Film Producer
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Nicholas Peter John Hornby
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...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.
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You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.
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my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
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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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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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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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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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Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.
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