“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”
― Fever Pitch
― Fever Pitch
“Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.”
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
― The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive. Family and friends know, after long years of wearying experience, that the fixture list always has the last word in any arrangement; they understand, or at least accept, that christenings or weddings or any gatherings, which in other families would take unquestioned precedence, can only be plotted after consultation. So football is regarded as a given disability that has to be worked around. If I were wheelchair-bound, nobody close to me would organise anything in a top-floor flat, so why would they plan anything for a winter Saturday afternoon.”
― Fever Pitch
― Fever Pitch
“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
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