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Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.


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It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.



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Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.



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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 to each other if they met at a party.



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