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I couldn't get the mood back; it was as if one of the kids had woken up just as Cindy and I were starting to make love. I hadn't changed my mind, and I still knew that I'd have to do it sometime. It's just that I knew I wasn't going to be able to do it in the next five minutes.

— Nick Hornby A Long Way Down (2005)

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Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on earth tolerable.

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Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

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What if a sense of humour is like hair — something a lot of man lose as they get older?

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Then I lost it. Kinda lost it all, you know. Faith, dignity, about fifteen pounds.

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