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What good were real feelings anyway?

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Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If...more

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

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Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.

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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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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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Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can ...more

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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 ...more

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Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-dr...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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It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to exp...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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Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.