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For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.
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In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!
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One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.
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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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We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.
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I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
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It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.
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I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.
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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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She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.
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So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.
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There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.
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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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You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.
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It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself
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You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
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When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.
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Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.
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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 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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[...] 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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