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Book: High Fidelity
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
I don't really know why it matters so much. Ian could be better at talking than me, or cooking, or working, or housework, or saving money, or earning money, or spending money, or understanding books or films; he could be nicer than me, better-looking, more intelligent, cleaner, more generous-spirited, more helpful, a better human being in any way you care to mention...and I wouldn't really mind. Really. I accept and understand that you can't be good at everything, and I am tragically unskilled in some very important areas. But sex is different; knowing that a successor is better in bed is impossible to take, and I don't know why.
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
What came first-the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
«Ecco che senso ha stare insieme. Tu hai un certo potenziale. E io sono qui per farlo emergere.»
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
Top five things I miss about Laura...Two: she's got character...she's loyal and honest, and she doesn't even take it out on people when she's having a bad day. That's character.
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
Women who disapprove of men-and there's plenty to disapprove of-should remember how we started out, and how far we have had to travel. 3.
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
Of course, I have never had to take that long walk again, and my ears have not burned with quite the same fury, and I have never had to count the packs of cheap cigarettes in order to avoid mocking eyes and floods of tears…not really, not actually, not as such. It just feels that way, sometimes.
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
She had been dumped a couple of years before by a sort of male equivalent to Charlie, a guy called Michael who wanted to be something at the BBC. {He never made it, the wanker, and each day we never saw him on TV or heard him on the radio, something inside us rejoiced.}
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breasts that I would try to touch her between her legs, a gesture that had a sort of self-parodying wit about it: it was like trying to borrow a fiver, getting turned down, and asking to borrow fifty quid instead. These
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
if I do OK with women, it's not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don't have.
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
not even sex, especially not sex, please God not sex, the filthiest and most terrifying invention of the early seventies.
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Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity
This is a song by Emmylou Harris called 'Boulder to Birmingham,'" she announces. "It's on the album Pieces of the Sky, which Rob is selling this afternoon for the unbelievable price of five pounds and ninety-nine pence, and you can find it right over there in the 'Country Artists {Female}' section.
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