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It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then...more

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If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not.

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It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak...more

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He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones.

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You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

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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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I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to g...more

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This time, something different happens, though. It’s the daydreaming that does it. I’m doing the usualthing—imagining in tiny detail the entire course...more

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But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know where my street is; I don't even know whic...more

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A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionna...more

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The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and singing 'Yellow Submarine' at the top of my voice...more

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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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And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there’s...more

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He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.

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Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him....more