Fuck. I hate all this stuff. How old do you have to get before it stops?
Nick HornbyI can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.
Nick HornbyOf course things like that complicate life, and there are all kinds of
readjustments to think about, battles to fight and lines to draw.
Is there anything
more adult than sticking with a relationship that’s falling apart in the hope that you can put it right?
I’ve never done that in my life.
You know the worst thing about
being rejected? The lack of control. If I could only control the when and how of being dumped by
somebody, then it wouldn’t seem as bad. But then, of course, it wouldn’t be rejection, would it? It
would be by mutual consent.
But there was an important and essential truth contained in the idea, and the truth was that these things matter, and 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 to each other if they met at a party.
Nick HornbyTags: love music films records nick-hornby
In Bruce Springsteen songs, you can either stay and rot, or you can escape and burn.
Nick HornbyWhy should we be denied basic human rights just because we’ve messed up our relationships?
Nick HornbyI’m thinking: am I supposed to fight, and what do I fight with, and whom am I fighting?
Nick HornbyI want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust.
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